During a drug and weapons raid of a Roma gypsy camp in Farsala, Greece, a blond-haired, blue-eyed four-year-old named Maria was discovered by authorities. A couple in camp claimed Maria was their child, but a DNA test proved she wasn’t related to them. No one can figure out where she is from or who she belongs to. The couple, whose names are not mentioned in the article, claim she was given to them by an unnamed party because her birth mother could not take care of her. However, the family gave authorities conflicting statements on how Maria came to live with them.

I feel horribly for everyone involved. If the couple is telling the truth, it’s awful that their child was taken from them. Also, poor Maria must be so confused right now! She’s just a little girl–how can she possibly understand what’s going on? And all of the families out there who lost a blond-haired, blue-eyed little girl who would be about four by now and are putting in calls and emails to the police–well, almost all of those people are going to be crushed when it turns out Maria isn’t their little girl, possibly all of them.

My mom thinks it’s going to be very interesting to find out where this child came from, if they ever do. She speculates that Maria might have been born to a woman running from the law, which is why whoever gave her to the gypsy couple in the article didn’t go through legal channels–if their story is true, of course. The author didn’t seem to have a bias.