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Irish Police Find Blonde Girl with Roma

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Child was removed from family.

Irish police took a blonde girl from a Roma family in Dublin on Tuesday, less than a week after a similar case in Greece drew international attention on rumors of a Roma child trafficking ring. The Roma couple apparently said the seven-year-old blue-eyed blonde girl was their daughter, but police said they were not satisfied with their documentation and removed her from their care. Last week, Greek officials took a four-year-old blonde girl from a Roma family after a raid on a camp. The little girl, known as Maria, turned out not be genetically linked to the people who said they were her parents.

Read it at BBC News