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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2013, 11:09 AM Oct 2013

DNA test confirms mother in 'Maria' case: Bulgarian authorities

Source: Associated Press

DNA test confirms mother in 'Maria' case: Bulgarian authorities

The Associated Press
Published Friday, October 25, 2013 10:07AM EDT
Last Updated Friday, October 25, 2013 10:23AM EDT

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- DNA tests have confirmed that a 35-year-old Bulgarian Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, authorities said Friday.

Genetic profile of Sasha Ruseva matched that of the girl, said Svetlozar Lazarov, an Interior Ministry official.

Ruseva has said she gave birth to a baby girl four years ago in Greece while working as an olive picker, and gave the child away because she was too poor to care for her.

Maria has been placed in temporary care since last week after authorities raided a Roma settlement in central Greece and later discovered that girl was not the child of the couple she was living were not her parents.

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DNA test confirms mother in 'Maria' case: Bulgarian authorities (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2013 OP

Good. dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #1

dipsydoodle

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Fri Oct 25, 2013, 11:11 AM

Oct 2013

So much for other claimants.

" Maria's case has drawn global attention, playing on the shocking possibility of children being stolen from their parents or sold by them. But its handling by media and authorities has raised concerns of racism toward the European Union's estimated 6 million Gypsies -- a minority long marginalized in most of the continent."

Mention is made elsewhere that the father carries albino dna which helps explain the blond hair.

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