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Monday, October 21, 2013

Could Mystery Girl Be American?

Dancing reluctantly for the crowd, the blue-eyed, pale-skinned little girl looks lost and out of place. The child, filmed just three weeks ago in the crime-ridden Roma settlement where she was found by police, is now at the center of an international appeal to uncover her identity. This weekend, a charity caring for the girl, who is known as Maria and understood to be four years old, said she was treated like a 'dancing bear' by the family she lived with ? who exploited her innocent looks, making her beg for money. As DNA tests showed that she is not related to the couple who claimed to be her parents, around 8,000 inquiries have been made about the girl the Greek media has dubbed the 'blonde angel.'

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