Well, I never like happy endings... Sooo with that being said....
The girl is pure evil, and is only luring you, the player, into a trap, to get the statue to move, it should be connected to the mark on the wall in the Fields of Abandoment, once you solve the "riddle" there, the statue will move, and the boss of that level could be the girl herself... an avatar of pure evil, that you must defeat, in order to free the area of its oppression of evil, thus why its now a sanctuary... kinda back stepping, but would explain why it's now a sanctuary.
I dunno.... just My two cents worth!.. -s-