Czech woman on remand in Brno in connection with bizarre case of identity fraud

A Czech woman of 33 who attempted to pass herself off as a teenage girl and later a teenage boy is in custody in Brno after being detained in Norway. Barbora Škrlová tried to become adopted in the guise of a 13-year-old named Anna by a woman at the centre of a child abuse case, and was the subject of a large police search in the Czech Republic when “Anna” was believed missing. After fleeing the country, the diminutive Ms Škrlová enrolled in a school in Norway, pretending to be a 13-year-old boy called Adam. The Norwegian authorities discovered her true identity after, posing of “Adam”, she claimed to have been sexually abused by a man who presented himself as her father. The whole bizarre case has gripped the Czech Republic since it first came to light last spring.