Bulgaria Mulls Fate of Roma Girl Maria, Her Siblings

Society | October 28, 2013, Monday // 13:09|  views

Sasha Ruseva and Atanas Rusev, the Bulgarian couple that is the biological parents of Maria. Photo by BGNES

The State Agency for Child Protection will convene a meeting of experts to decide when to bring back to Bulgaria little blonde Roma girl Maria.

The information was reported by Milena Dyankova, an official from the Agency, speaking for bTV.

Last week, DNA tests proved that the four-year-old girl known as Maria, who was found living with a Roma family in Greece, is from the Bulgarian town of Nikolaevo, near Stara Zagora.

The Agency's will also decide what to do with her seven brothers and sisters who live in extreme poverty in the same town.

"The responsibility for the daily care of children at risk belongs to the Agency for Social Assistance," said Dyankova, passing the ball to another institution.

She stressed that child trafficking and sale of babies is part of organized crime where illegal channels generate large profits by using the vulnerable position of children and parents to get them in the scheme.

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Tags: Maria, greece, Roma, DNA tests, state agency for child protection

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