Hey statists, keep your dirty hands off sold children

The chaotic state of Greece and its institutions was once again thrust into the spotlight yesterday when police announced they had arrested a childless couple in Athens on suspicion of attempting to pass off an eight-month-old Roma girl as their own.

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The pair were seized as DNA tests proved a Bulgarian couple are the biological parents of another little girl whose discovery in a Roma camp in central Greece has triggered fears of rampant child-trafficking in the crisis-plagued country.

Bulgaria’s interior ministry said genetic profiling proved Sasha Ruseva (38), a Roma woman, was the mother of the girl known as Maria. Ms Ruseva had said she gave birth to the blonde, blue-eyed child while working as an olive picker in Greece but, unable to support the baby, had given her to a family living in a nearby Roma community.

Yesterday’s arrests came days after another Roma couple were charged with child abduction on the Aegean island of Lesvos when authorities discovered them with a baby boy who was not their own.

All three cases have thrown an unflattering light on the chaotic state of a nation not only in economic freefall but struggling to cope with a bureaucracy edging closer to collapse.

After a supreme court prosecutor ordered an investigation this week into thousands of possibly fake birth certificates, officials, charity workers, lawyers and child-advocacy experts agreed the dysfunctional public administration had left Greece’s birth registration system wide open to abuse.

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Hey statists, keep your dirty hands off sold children

Hey statists, keep your dirty hands off sold children

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