I think there are a few different layers of truth and what you said is definitely one. The woman who was interviewed might have said that because she was caught like a deer in the headlights by having someone actually interested in hearing her opinion, or maybe she was high and mighty and was passing judgement on the child's parents who left their child in search of money, but she found a more subtle way of saying it.
We are all children really.
If that was my child I would be thrilled.