DNA tests have shown a Bulgarian couple are the biological parents of a four-year-old blonde girl found in a Roma camp in Greece last week, solving a mystery that captured global attention.
The girl, called Maria, was found last week hiding under a blanket at a Roma settlement in central Greece with another Roma couple.
Her biological parents, Sasha Ruseva and Atanas Rusev, have nine other children and live in extreme poverty in a ramshackle house in a small town in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating whether Sasha Ruseva, 35, agreed to sell the child, Reuters reports.
She denies that, saying she left a seven-month-old baby in Greece, where she worked as an olive-picker in 2009, because she could not look after the child and needed to return to Bulgaria.
Maria is being looked after by a Greek charity, which says it has received more than 10,000 calls with leads or from parents of missing children.
