Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2013 17:37:32 GMT
A blonde haired blue-eyed seven year-old girl has been taken from a Roma family in Dublin and into care by the HSE in a case remarkably similar to the Greek stolen child scandal.
Maria: a Roma family in Dublin have also had a blonde haired, blue eyed child taken from them into care of HSE
The Sunday World can exclusively reveal that the child, who is living with a Roma gypsy family in Tallaght in south Dublin, was taken away by gardai following a major investigation on Monday afternoon. Gardai received a tip-off from a member of the public that a six or seven year-old girl was living with a large Roma family but looked nothing like any of her supposed siblings. Officers from the child protection unit attached to Tallaght station called to the home on Monday afternoon and spoke with two Roma adults.
There were a number of children in the house and one was a young girl who had blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She looked nothing like anybody else in the house but the adults maintained that the girl was their daughter. They were asked to produce a birth certificate but could not find one. In the meantime gardai made contact with a hospital consultant in and asked if it was possible for Romas to give birth to blonde children, considering their natural dark complexions.
The consultant said that this would be extremely unusual. The parents claimed that the child was born in the Coombe hospital in Dublin in April 2006 but when gardai contacted the Coombe they had no record of the child having been born on the date the parents claimed. It is understood that gardai may seek to take DNA samples from the parents and the child to fully determine whether they are the biological parents. Nobody has been arrested and gardai are trying to confirm the information given to them from the Roma parents. They have lived in Ireland for years but it is understood they regularly go back to Romania.
Maria: a Roma family in Dublin have also had a blonde haired, blue eyed child taken from them into care of HSE
The Sunday World can exclusively reveal that the child, who is living with a Roma gypsy family in Tallaght in south Dublin, was taken away by gardai following a major investigation on Monday afternoon. Gardai received a tip-off from a member of the public that a six or seven year-old girl was living with a large Roma family but looked nothing like any of her supposed siblings. Officers from the child protection unit attached to Tallaght station called to the home on Monday afternoon and spoke with two Roma adults.
There were a number of children in the house and one was a young girl who had blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She looked nothing like anybody else in the house but the adults maintained that the girl was their daughter. They were asked to produce a birth certificate but could not find one. In the meantime gardai made contact with a hospital consultant in and asked if it was possible for Romas to give birth to blonde children, considering their natural dark complexions.
The consultant said that this would be extremely unusual. The parents claimed that the child was born in the Coombe hospital in Dublin in April 2006 but when gardai contacted the Coombe they had no record of the child having been born on the date the parents claimed. It is understood that gardai may seek to take DNA samples from the parents and the child to fully determine whether they are the biological parents. Nobody has been arrested and gardai are trying to confirm the information given to them from the Roma parents. They have lived in Ireland for years but it is understood they regularly go back to Romania.