Greek Maddy: Now gypsy claims she may be mother
A WOMAN who could be the mother of the “blonde angel” found living in a Roma camp has offered to take the child back.
Bulgarian gypsy Sasha Ruseva, 35, said she is prepared to take a DNA test to show if the fair- haired, blueeyed girl known as Maria is her daughter.
And she said she is willing to reclaim the child she may have given away years earlier if the biological link is proved.
Maria was found by chance last week living with an unrelated Roma couple in Farsala, Greece. She was dubbed the “Greek Madeleine” as it was thought she may have been abducted. The worldwide hunt for the girl’s real parents led police to Ruseva in the central Bulgarian town of Nikolaevo, where she lives with her husband Atana Rusev, 37, and a number of other children.
Ruseva is said to have admitted to police that she left a baby in Greece four years ago. But she denied taking any money for giving up the baby to another Roma, or gypsy, family at that time.
Dark- haired Ruseva is said to have up to 10 children at the family home in Bulgaria.
Yesterday, a number of them posed in the doorway. Among them was a pale- skinned blond boy and a baby girl with bright red hair, possibly dyed.
In a separate development, a gypsy couple were arrested on the Greek island of Lesbos for alleged child snatching after trying to register a baby boy.
The woman, 19, and her boyfriend, 21, allegedly failed to provide proper documents.
Regional police chief Panagiotis Kordonouris said the couple later admitted a Roma woman had given them the baby in Athens.