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October 24, 2013
Little blonde Maria was being groomed by her gipsy captors to be a child bride, Greek police believe.
The distinctive blue-eyed girl was discovered in a Roma settlement during a police raid a week ago, when officers noticed she looked nothing like the couple posing as her parents.
DNA evidence has shown she is not related to Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, and her husband Hristos Salis, 39, who have been charged with child abduction and procuring false identity documents.
Police now believe that Maria, who is thought to be four or five, was being prepared for marriage at the age of 12.
Her pale skin, near-white hair and blue eyes would have made her a ‘prize bride’ among the gipsy community.
She would have fetched Salis and Dimopoulou a large dowry, according to police sources.
Officers investigating the case believe the prospect of a bridal pay-off is why Maria had not yet been sold.
She was treated as an ‘investment’ to be nurtured and protected until she reached the traditional Roma ‘coming of age’ – usually at the age of 12.
Maria was given her own room in the brick-built house where she was discovered, in the gipsy settlement of Tabakou on the edge of Farsala, central Greece.
There is growing evidence she was used by Salis and Dimopoulou to beg and dance for money.
They also made money from child benefit payments she entitled them to.
Neighbours say the couple purchased Maria for as little as £850 from a Bulgarian couple when she was a baby.
Detectives are now looking into the possibility that she was offered cheap by a gang on the run from police. The gang, smuggling children from Bulgaria into Greece, may have intended to sell her to a wealthy Greek couple for up to £22,000.
They are looking at case files of three illegal adoption circles that were dismantled by police between 2009 and 2011.
