Albanian wrongly arrested in neighboring Greece

ATHENS, Sep 13 – DNA testing has dashed hopes that a little girl found on a Greek resort island could be an Italian child who vanished four years ago in Sicily, authorities said last week.
Greek police said tests irrevocably established that the girl’s mother is an Albanian Roma woman who has been arrested for abducting her _ but who always maintained her innocence.
Police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis said the suspect “is 99.999 percent” the girl’s real mother. “The child is not the missing girl from Italy.”
Police found the child Wednesday on the Aegean Sea island of Kos, based on a tip from an Italian tourist who said she resembled pictures on posters of the vanished Denise Pipitone. The girl was begging in the company of the 29-year-old Roma woman and a little boy.
Police disregarded the Roma woman’s claims she was the girl’s mother, saying she was unable to certify parentage.
Pipitone who would be nearly 8, vanished outside her home on Sept. 1, 2004.
Stathis said the mother of the Kos girl, who is aged 8 or 9, will be released and there was no charge against her.