Additionally, a temple of Thor can be reasonably expected to have multiple clerics of Thor, who can be reasonably expected not to be complicit in the murder of one of their own.
...the bad decision had already been made and was being implemented: she was already well on en route into danger with Kudzu. (You could probably find someone to argue that she should have left Kudzu with the acolytes at the temple, but I think we already established that Kudzu's safer with Hilgya in that situation...although not as safe as if he hadn't been brought into that situation in the first place)