After the completion of her prison sentence, her family refused to accept her back. Fortunately, while in prison, she had encountered the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. When she left prison, they took her in, bringing her to live at the St. Theresa Garden.
服刑期滿後，家人拒絕接回，所幸在服刑期間接觸了仁愛傳教修女會的修女們，出獄後就被修女們破例收容，接到德蘭園共同生活。