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'SHE'S TRAUMATISED AND SPEAKS ROUMANIAN': Mystery of girl snatched as toddler in 2003 and found seven years later
By David Gardner
Last updated at 9:47 AM on 16th July 2010
The mystery surrounding a girl kidnapped as a toddler in 2003 and found alive this week deepened today as it emerged she speaks Romanian.
Amber Nicklas was found alive and well on Wednesday, nearly seven years after she was abducted from a California restaurant.
In a case that will give hope to the parents of Madeleine McCann, the victim was found hundreds of miles away in Phoenix, Arizona.
She has now been placed into care. Last night police said that she was 'traumatised' to have been taken from the only family she could remember.
She had never been to school, a spokesman said, and spoke Romanian as well as English.
She had been happy and well cared for, they said, and was upset to have been taken from her captors.
Her name had been changed by her captors, who claimed they were from Romania.
They also faked her date of birth and kept her out of school to avoid raising suspicion.
But there was still no clue this morning as to how she ended up living at the house of a fortune teller in Phoenix seven years after her abduction aged just thirteen months.
Police said a woman tried to hide the girl under a pile of towels in the bathroom shower as they searched the house in Phoenix - 371 miles from Norwalk, California, where Amber was kidnapped - under a court order.
At first, she tried to claim she adopted the girl, but couldn't provide any paperwork to prove the story.
A view of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, where the girl believed to be Amber Nicklas was found after being missing for seven years
'The child seemed well cared for. She appeared well-nourished. The child was very happy,' said Captain Patrick Maxwell, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
'This wasn't like the Jaycee Lee Dugard situation. Apart from being kept out of school she lived a semi-normal life.
'She wasn't locked in a bedroom or anything like that. She called these people mum and dad,' he added.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1992 when she was eleven and held captive for eighteen years before she was rescued a year ago.
Amber was snatched when her foster parents took her for a court-arranged meeting with her mother at a Chuck E. Cheese children's restaurant.
Two of the girl's aunts distracted the foster mother while a third aunt, aged just 13, ran off with the child. Although police later arrested two of the aunts, the third escaped with the baby.
Amber had been forcibly removed from her grandmother's care along with several other children. Her mother had already given up all rights to her.
Captain Maxwell said police were still trying to determine exactly how the child came to be living in Arizona with a couple who are not related to her.
But he. said he doesn't expect the girl's mother to come looking for her. 'It's horrible,' he said. 'It breaks my heart.'
'The detectives said to the 'parents,' if you really care about this child, you need to go in there and tell her everything is going to be OK,' Captain Maxwell said. 'They did that.'
He added that the parents who raised the girl would not be charged unless it was found that they had something to do with Amber's kidnapping.
Detectives received information last November suggesting the girl was living in Arizona. Footprints, photographs and DNA swabs were taken to confirm her identity