Posted on 10/25/2013 8:29:16 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
DNA confirms that a child found by police in a Gypsy encampment in central Greece is the daughter of a Bulgarian migrant, who says she gave up her baby because she could not afford to care for her.
Sasha Ruseva, a 35-year-old Bulgarian Gypsy, or Roma, said she gave birth to the girl, called Maria, four years ago while working as an olive picker in Greece.
The girl was found last week during a crackdown by Greek authorities on Gypsy settlements. Authorities became suspicious of the couple who claimed to be her parents, because of the girl's blonde hair and blue eyes.
"We gave her, we gifted her, without money," Sashka Ruseva told Bulgaria's TV7 on Friday.
Authorities tracked Ruseva to a gypsy camp in Nikolaevo in rural Bulgaria. She was found living with her husband and several other children, in a home without running water. Five of the couple's children also have blonde hair and blue eyes and resemble Maria.
The Greek Gypsy couple, with whom Ruseva left the girl, were arrested last week for child abduction, a claim they deny.
The girl is being cared for by a Greek charity and held at an undisclosed hospital.
Her discovery set off an international search to find her parents, as well as crackdowns across Europe on Gypsy settlements amid rumors that children were being sold or traded.
Hundreds of families who are missing children, including several in the United States, got their hopes up that Maria could be their child.
The mystery was deepened earlier this week when Interpol found that there was no DNA match for Maria among its international list of missing children.
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with DNA testing --
Man, that really stinks. That poor girl. But at least she is alive. The Bulgarian woman at least gave her life.
Maybe Chief Justice Roberts will adopt her?
All children rightfully belong to the state.
I have a distant cousin that was adopted...sort of. In the 1920’s my aunt and uncle had a neighbor woman call on them. She had an infant with her. The woman said that she knew my aunt and uncle had been trying to have a child and couldn’t...so she offered the baby girl. The woman said she had several children and she and her husband couldn’t feed another one. They took the little girl and raised it as their own with all the love you could give a child. Back then you did what was right without a bunch of government oversight.
Is it part of the Roma culture to take in children of those who can’t or won’t take care of them, without the formality of adoption? If it is, I’m conflicted on the issue.
It was common a couple of generations back for people to take in kids and raise them without any formal adoption.
Its harder now. Dealing with schools, getting medical care is a problem when you aren’t the legal guardian. You can still do it if the legal parent is around to deal with things like this, but taking in a ragamuffin off the streets is not so easy in this day and age.
I believe the story is out of date. Last night I saw a story that said the children had been returned to the gypsy couple.
There were a fair number of old timers in my hometown who had come to the midwest as children adopted out to local farm families.
Thank you. Now that song will be stuck in my head all day. I guess it's better then doe ray me.
Did the woman and her husband ever figure out why they kept having kids? LOL!
The child trafficking in this news story gives good deeds a bad, bad name, even in a part of Europe where morals are very different.
That said, non-official adoption within families was common in families of hispanic ancestry-especially in rural areas-even to the mid-late 50’s when I was a child-some of us believe children should stay with be cared for by their own families. As an adult, I was surprised to learn the biological parentage of a couple of extended family members...
If a sibling or cousin was abandoned with a child-in or out of wedlock-and was without means of support, the child was welcomed into another family member’s household as their own child, and the children of that household knew them as a sibling, not a cousin.
Usually it was grandparents “adopting” the child and presenting it as their own-if they were young enough to have a late, “surprise” baby, or saying they had adopted the child from Mexico, or from some distant relation. Either way, it worked out much better I think, than having a child abandoned to cold government care-and certainly better than abortion.
One of my longtime friends from the valley did not know that the woman he had believed was his older sister was actually his mother who, abandoned by his father as a young teenager had come home and allowed her parents to claim him. He found out when he was about 20, and no one saw anything particularly unusual in that.
I’ve always suspected that informal adoption was common to all ethnic groups in the past.
The woman said she had several children and she and her husband couldn’t feed another one.
I call BS on this one. The kids are profitable because they use them to beg. One gypsy was busted here in Jacksonville, FL a couple weeks ago using her kids as bait.
I guess it's also better than trying to hold a moonbeam in your hand.(:
Having kids to make money -- kind of sounds like the American welfare system and ADC
It used to be about doing what was right, now it is all about doing what is LEGAL, not even that in some cases, it may become all about doing what some judge okays even though it may be totally against the constitution or common sense.
In the cities here, there are women who use their kids as begging bait, too-the woman holds up a sign asking for work and food while the kids have sad looks on their faces, and hold out their hands for money.
Then after a couple of hours of collections, they walk to the shopping center across the street and get into a nicer vehicle than I have and drive away.
"What the FOX says Binga-ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding "
My grandmother had a "brother" that was taken in as a child and raised by her parents.........I don't know what the circumstans were tho.
I also play softball with an older guy who is in his 70's who grew up in an orphanage in northern Michigan........I heard they existed but I never met anyone who actually lived in one.
You're right tho, such actions were common way back then......No child protective services to run to.
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