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Do you know this child?

Steve

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The mystery of Maria's identity has attracted the interest of investigators and parents involved in missing-child cases around the world.

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ATHENS, Greece — Prosecutors across Greece were ordered Tuesday to conduct emergency checks of birth records from the past six years, after the arrest of a Gypsy couple on suspicion of abducting a little girl triggered fears of widespread welfare fraud.

The blond-haired, fair-skinned girl, known as Maria and believed to be 5 or 6, drew the attention of police during a raid on a Gypsy camp last week because she looked unlike the couple raising her. DNA tests showed they were not her biological parents as claimed on her birth certificate.

steal a baby to get welfare.. why can't they just use baby daddies like our minorities do
 

Steve

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Two other children have been found on Roma traveller sites.

The Gypsy camp suspects, Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, and Christos Salis, 39, received more than $3,420 in monthly welfare payments after declaring they had 14 children, eight of whom are unaccounted for and presumed not to exist, authorities said. They were jailed on charges of abduction and document fraud

"The case of the underage girl Maria does not appear to be an isolated one," the order signed by prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani said.

Benefit fraud has become a powerful issue in Greece

Police spotted Maria during one of dozens of raids they have carried out on Roma camps in the past few weeks in a crackdown on drug smuggling and burglary gangs.

Police said Maria's birth was falsely declared in Athens by Dimopoulou in 2009, but they did not elaborate. A charity in charge of the girl's temporary care said a dental examination indicated she is 5 or 6, not 4 as originally thought. It is not even certain the child was born in Greece.

In Ireland on Monday, police seized a young blond girl from a Romanian Gypsy couple in Dublin in a move spurred by the case in Greece.

The couple said the 7-year-old child was theirs, but a Dublin maternity hospital they cited had no record of the birth

while they are worried about welfare fraud,.. many parents of lost children are now worrying about their stolen child..

no one wants to falsely raise the hopes of those parents but thanks to DNA testing the parents may be found.. which must bring new hope to them.. nothing could be worse then losing a child in my view..
 
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