Police search for missing girl, her true identity still continues

Police have deployed 60 more officers to search for a 13-year old girl who ran away from a children's home in Brno on Friday night where she had been placed earlier that day. The girl, called Anna, who reportedly suffers from social phobia and autism, had been previously staying in the house of a thirty-year old woman who was arrested last week after a neighbour discovered she kept her eight-year old son Ondrej naked and bound in the dark in a storage room. Ondrej is now in hospital care and is reported to be in a stable condition. His elder brother Jakub remains in a children's home.

Meanwhile police are trying to determine the true identity of the missing girl. It is also still unclear whether she left the children's home on her own, whether someone assisted her in her escape or whether she was kidnapped. The mother of the two boys and Anna's foster mother, Klara Mauerova, a child psychology student, has been remanded in custody and could face up to eight years in prison.