SpiceMan Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Greek police are trying to discover the identity of a young blonde girl who was found living on a Roma settlement with a family she did not resemble. DNA tests revealed the child, called Maria and aged about four, was not related to the couple she lived with. The little girl is now being looked after by a charity. Her photo has been released to help find her family. Officials believe she may have been a victim of abduction or child trafficking. Police are appealing internationally as the girl looks like she might be from northern or eastern Europe. The charity, Smile of the Child, told the BBC that the girl was frightened and neglected when she arrived in their care but that in overall good health and was now more relaxed. It said it had received many calls since the appeal was launched. Police raided the Roma camp, near Farsala in central Greece, to search for drugs and weapons. The little girl was allegedly being used to beg on the streets They noticed the lack of resemblance between the blonde-haired, green-eyed, pale-skinned little girl and her parents, and found further discrepancies when they investigated the family's documents. The couple had registered different numbers of children with different regional family registries. The woman claimed to have given birth to six children within a 10-month period. When questioned about how they came to have Maria, the couple gave "constantly changing claims," Thessalia Province Police Director Vassilis Halatsis said. "The girl might have been abducted from a hospital, or given up by an unmarried mother," the officer said. "So far we do not have a declared disappearance of a child of this age in Greece. Through Interpol, we will request assistance from the other European countries." The 39-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife have been arrested on suspicion of abducting a minor. The president of Smile of the Child, Kostas Yaaopoulos, said the girl was being used to beg on the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Possibly kidnapped in a nearby country. Unless someone has reported a missing child of the right age to the police, it will be a touch one finding her parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 A lot of blonde children in Greece, she could be from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Trafficked from Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiceMan Posted October 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 As a young blond boy, I was told that gypsies like to steal blond kids like me and warned against them. Then later, when political correctness arrived in England, we were told that it was "an old wives tale" and that the "traveler community" should be respected as a disadvantaged minority. Today I read that another blonde girl, 7, has been removed from a Dublin Roma family. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24626422 I'm furious, Hitler's policy on these people seems reasonable to me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 My grandmother told me she was terrified of Gypsies when she was a girl. Everyone was. When they came around, all the men in the village would grab their shotguns or pitchforks and turn out to drive them off. That was in Austria-Hungary in the early 20th century! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Very sad story. Should be an interesting story as to how this child ended up with this family. Some poverty mother sell this child? Stolen? Wouldn't there be some sort of police report of missing child? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiceMan Posted October 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 There are thousand of missing children in Europe. The gypsy family in Ireland and and the one in Greece, have been charged with Abduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I am surprised that the media haven't linked this child to the missing Madeline from Portugal as Bust noted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I am surprised that the media haven't linked this child to the missing Madeline from Portugal as Bust noted above. Maddy should be 2 years older..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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