‘Blonde Angel’ Roma Child Maria Is Not Baby Lisa Irwin Based Upon Forensic Dentistry
The “blonde angel” Roma girl named Maria is not Baby Lisa according to experts in forensic dentistry.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Roma gypsy parents of the blonde angel have been charged with child abduction, but representatives of the Romani believe the case is being overblown due to bigotry and racism.
Greek police arrested the Roma parents solely due to the marked difference in hair and skin tone. Little Maria is blonde haired and blue eyed, while the Roma couple are dark featured.
Police are wading through more than 10,000 tips, although “there are eight to 10 good leads.” In addition to the flood of tips, the media has sensationalized the idea that the blonde girl might be baby Lisa Irwin, who disappeared from America in October of 2011, when she was just 10 months old. The parents derived this idea by comparing currents photos of Maria to what they estimate their three year old child should look like.
The Lisa Irwin case was thoroughly investigated and Interpol could not identify Maria based upon a missing persons DNA database:
“A comparison of the girl’s profile against Interpol’s global DNA database has not produced a match. All of the organization’s 190 member countries are now being encouraged to check her DNA profile against their own national databases, as Greek authorities investigate whether the young girl known as ‘Maria’ may have been abducted or fallen prey to child traffickers.”
Despite the Interpol database not including missing children from the United States, FBI officials doubt baby Lisa Irwin is Maria, saying, “I am not sure there are enough similarities between the girls.” Robert Lowery, senior executive director for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, agrees with the FBI, but still says they’ll compare samples from Maria against baby Lisa:
“Frankly, right now… it does not appear that this may be any of our children. But again we want to confirm one way or the other.”
However confident officials may or may not be, the estimated age of Maria is a major blow to the theory. Greek police claim the Roma parents forged documents, so no one is certain about the blonde angel’s actual age. Maria cannot tell herself since she only speaks a mix of Romani and Greek words.
But a dental examination suggested Maria is between five and six years old. This method is known as forensic dentistry and recent studies of age estimation accuracy suggest the “truest age estimates made by the dentists were in the one to 10 years age range,” with a 89.6 percent accuracy rating. Since baby Lisa Irwin is established to be roughly three years old, the age estimate provided by the dentists would have to be off by several years in order for this hope to be true.
Unfortunately, there’s a darker side to the baby Lisa Irwin theory. The mother failed a polygraph about the disappearance of her daughter and FBI cadaver dogs “indicated a positive ‘hit’ for the scent of a deceased human” in the family home. But Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin insist their daughter must have been kidnapped.
The Roma parents of Maria allegedly did not tell the truth about the blonde angel at first, either. Police say the couple “changed repeatedly their story about how they got the child.” At one point, they said they merely found Maria. The mother even claimed at one point that she conceived the child through an affair with a blonde man.
The final version of how they came to be the parents of Maria was told before a Greek magistrate. They claim the blonde angel had been left in their care in Farsala by a couple who are Bulgarian nationals. The father claims he was not at the camp when the child was left there and had later urged his wife to hand her over to authorities. The wife backed her husband’s statement, claiming she refused to report the incident to authorities as she had grown attached to the child. Authorities are currently trying to track down the Bulgarian couple through phone numbers the Roma couple gave them.
