Sunday 20 October 2013

Mistery green eyed, blonde girl sparks Child trafficking concerns!



It has been wildly reported that the Greek Police have asked Interpol to help them track down the real parents of This blonde girl with green eyes (pictured below) who was found in a Roma camp in central Greece.
Handout photo released by Greek Police on October 18, 2013 shows an unidentified 4-year-old blonde girl whom was found on October 17, 2013 near Farsala in central Greece during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities by Roma
Simpy identified as Maria, the four-year-old was spotted peeking out from under a blanket at a Roma settlement near the town of Farsala during a police sweep on Wednesday for suspected drug trafficking.
According to sources, she speaks just a few words in the Roma dialect and Greek, and police think she may be of northern or eastern European origin, possibly from Scandinavia or Bulgaria.
Police have sent Interpol a file with all the evidence they have on the girl, including DNA samples, to seek a possible match with its records on missing children, a police official said. They have also contacted international groups and charities that deal with lost or abducted children.
"Mystery - a blonde angel without an identity," top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Saturday.
In this undated photo released by Greek Police shows a four-year-old girl at an unknown location. Greek authorities on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 have requested international assistance to identify the four-year-old girl found living in a Gypsy camp with a couple arrested and charged with abducting her from her birth parents. A police statement says the child was located Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2013 near the town of Farsala, central Greece, during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities in Gypsy camps. (AP Photo/Greek Police)
"Also photos released by police of Maria staring blankly at the camera with muddy hands and scruffy pigtails have dominated the media". 
"Parallels were drawn to the case of Briton Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old".


DNA tests have shown the couple in the Roma camp with whom Maria was living were not her biological parents. The 40-year-old woman and 39-year-old man have been arrested and charged with abducting a minor, and police are investigating whether the girl was a victim of trafficking.
During questioning, the couple gave at least five conflicting accounts of how the child ended up with them, including that she was found outside a supermarket, police said.

DNA test confirmed that the child did not belong to the Roma couple. “The girl looks Scandinavian or could be Bulgarian,” a police officer said.
The woman had two different identification documents and other papers suggested the couple had up to 14 children, but six were registered as having been born within less than 10 months. They received 2,790 euros ($3,800) a month in child benefits, a police source said.
"This has never happened before - to have found the child and to be looking for the parents," said Natalie Karakouliafi of the Smile of the Child charity, which is looking after the girl. 

A poster of a four-year-old girl known as Maria, who was found living with a couple in a Roma camp in central Greece, is pictured in the office of the
In response to an international appeal, it has received more than 5,000 calls since Friday from people looking for their missing children or offering clues.
The charity received reports that the girl was forced to beg for money in the streets but its director, Costas Giannopoulos, said she was in good health.
"She was frightened and cried herself to sleep. She is not looking for anyone and she is devoted to play," he told Reuters. "It has shaken everyone and has helped bring to light a major problem - just how easy it is to traffic children".
Local police chief Vasilis Halastis told Greek TV: "We're always searching for lost children. In this case we're searching for the opposite: the biological, natural parents. This is unprecedented."

The neighborhood where maria was found pictured below:
Roma people stand in a Roma settlement in Farsala, central Greece, on October 19, 2013. 

A Roma woman walks next to the house where a 4-year-old blonde girl lived in Farsala, central Greece, on 19 October, 2013.


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