Irish police have taken a blonde-haired, blue eyed girl from a Roma family in Dublin, in a case which bears remarkable similarities to that of Maria in Greece
A blonde-haired, blue eyed girl has been discovered living among Roma gipsies in Ireland – five days after a girl in Greece was found in near identical circumstances.
Irish police, the gardai, were tipped off about the seven-year-old girl by people who noticed that she looked nothing like her supposed siblings. The family were living in the Tallaght area of south Dublin, with several children at the house when the police arrived on Monday afternoon.
The parents claimed that the child was born in the Coombe hospital in Dublin in April 2006. But when gardai contacted the hospital, they had no record of the child having been born on the date the parents claimed. The child has been taken into care and authorities are awaiting the results of a DNA test.
Nobody has been arrested and gardai are trying to confirm the information given to them from the Roma parents.
The Sunday World newspaper claimed the family have lived in Ireland for years but it is understood they regularly go back to Romania.