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Current AffairsMissing woman who pretended to be 13 year-old girl turns up in Denmark
On Friday, a woman under the name of Barbora Skrlova walked into the Czech
embassy in Denmark. Accompanied by her father and lawyer, she asked for a
Czech passport and presented samples of her hair and saliva for DNA
testing. The 32-year old woman claimed to be a 13-year-old girl named
Anicka, who police have been looking for since she disappeared from a
children's home over a month ago.
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Letter from PragueIs this for real?
"If it were a soap opera we would have switched it off long ago"
- that is how one Czech journalist characterized the most stupefying story
in Czech criminal history. When the story broke a fortnight ago it seemed
to be a horrifying case of child abuse.
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Current AffairsMissing "13-year-old" apparently diminutive 34-year-old woman
It is almost two weeks since a disturbing story broke about a little boy
named Ondrej who had been severely abused by his mother. From that point
on, the whole thing became more and more curious, as somebody said to be
his
13-year-old sister disappeared from a children's home. First it emerged
that the authorities had no record of "Anna", who Ondrej's
mother had been attempting to adopt. Hundreds of police officers searched
the country for "Anna", in vain. Now it seems that the alleged
13-year-old is in fact a diminutive 34-year-old woman. The girl has never
existed, apparently. More
Current AffairsPoliticians call for changes to law in light of Ondrej abuse case
The case of the little boy abused by his mother is beginning to have
political ramifications, two weeks after the seven-year-old was found
bound and naked in a broom cupboard. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says
he wants new legislation to improve the protection of children, while the
education minister is calling for tighter controls over home schooling in
the Czech Republic. More
Current AffairsFresh speculation regarding mystery girl's identity
It is one of the most shocking cases in Czech criminal history - eight year
old Ondra was found naked, bound and dehydrated in a cupboard under the
stairs, abused by his own mother, Klara Mauerova, a single mother taking
care of three children. It then emerged that Ondra's thirteen year old
sister Anna was a child without an identity whom Klara had taken under her
wing. All three children were placed in a children's home from which Anna
mysteriously disappeared.
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Current AffairsNation-wide search continues for mystery girl
The story of eight year old Ondra who was abused by his mother - found tied
up, naked in a small windowless cupboard under the stairs - has taken a
strange new twist. Attention has now shifted to his allegedly adopted
sister Anna who was found to be legally "non-existent". No one
knows who she is, where she came from and how she came to be in the care
of Klara Mauerova, the woman who is now accused of abusing her own son.
Anna disappeared from the orphanage where she and her two brothers were
placed and has now been missing for six days.
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