Fresh twist in bizarre Mauer family case

Another person attended a university course in place of a missing woman who evidently hoped to acquire the identity of a 13-year-old, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. Barbora Skrlova enrolled in the course at Brno's Masaryk University, though the person photographed in her documents there was in fact Katerina Mauerova, the sister of the woman who was apparently trying to "adopt" Ms Skrlova under the pretence that she was an abandoned child.

Both Katerina Mauerova and her sister Klara are in custody on charges of abusing the latter's seven-year-old son Ondrej. Barbora Skrlova is believed to have been posing as the boy's sister "Anicka". Police are searching for her, though they say it is possible she has left the country. The bizarre case has gripped the country.