OSLO, Norway, Jan. 10, 2008

Woman, 33, Was Disguised As Teen Boy

Search For Missing Czech Boy Leads To Woman With Bound Breasts, Shaved Head

  • In a bizarre turn of events, when a police search for a missing 13-year-old Czech boy turned up the missing “Adam” in Norway, the teenager was revealed to actually be 33-year-old Barbora Skrlova, hiding from the authorities to avoid giving testimony in a child abuse case. Photo

    In a bizarre turn of events, when a police search for a missing 13-year-old Czech boy turned up the missing “Adam” in Norway, the teenager was revealed to actually be 33-year-old Barbora Skrlova, hiding from the authorities to avoid giving testimony in a child abuse case.  (Czech Police Photos)

(AP)  A nationwide search for a missing 13-year-old Czech boy exposed a bizarre case of identity theft in which a 33-year-old woman spent four months posing as a schoolboy in Norway, police said Thursday.

Barbora Skrlova had been hiding from Czech authorities to avoid giving testimony in a 2007 child abuse case, Czech police said.

She was deported back to the Czech Republic and detained Wednesday after months of fooling teachers, childcare workers and police in Norway by passing herself off as a boy named “Adam,” Czech police spokeswoman Andrea Prochazkova said.

A woman who supplied a Czech passport enrolled her son “Adam” at the Marienlyst school near Oslo last September, authorities said.

Adam was actually the 5-foot-2 Skrlova, her breasts bound and head shaved, authorities said.

School authorities said they did noticed Adam's strange behavior.

“We did react to Adam's behavior. But it's not easy to know. Children at that age can be so different,” school principal Ingjerd Eriksen told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet.

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We did react to 'Adam''s behavior. But it's not easy to know. Children at that age can be so different.

School principal Ingjerd Eriksen
In mid-December, however, Adam disappeared from an Oslo children's home, prompting police to launch a nationwide search and publish photographs Jan. 4 of the missing “child.”

Tips led them to Skrlova in the Arctic city on Tromsoe.

“It turned out that the so-called missing teenager was a 33-year-old woman,” Norwegian police said in a statement.

“Not even we have been able to figure out what is up and down in this case,” Norwegian police attorney Sven T. Roer said.

Oslo police said the Czech parents of the real Adam are believed to have helped Skrlova deceive Norwegian child care authorities by claiming she was their son.

It apparently is not the first time Skrlova fooled authorities by posing as a child.

In the Czech city of Brno, Skrlova posed as a 13-year-old girl adopted by Klara Mauerova, Czech police said. Mauerova is suspected of abusing her two younger biological sons, and Skrlova is key witness in the case.

Facing an investigation, Skrlova went with friends to Denmark, and ended up in Norway.

Czech authorities now are looking into whether Skrlova should be charged with identity theft and misleading authorities, police said.

Skrlova also was undergoing psychiatric evaluation, police said. She is being held in Brno, 125 miles east of Prague.

Associated Press writer Ondrej Hejma contributed to this report from Prague, Czech Republic.

By Doug Mellgren
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by iceman_1960 January 10, 2008 3:28 PM PST
"Boys Don"t Cry" had a similar idea.
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by iceman_1960 January 10, 2008 3:29 PM PST
The film "Boys Don"t Cry" - Hilary Swank ("Million Dollar Baby" star) disguised as a boy.
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by docofthebay January 10, 2008 3:36 PM PST
Here comes another movie of the week!
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by paul-la January 10, 2008 3:58 PM PST
Hillary Swank is way too hot to play
the part of this wierd looking thing
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by Krazcarl January 10, 2008 4:29 PM PST
A international mentally handicapped. there are to many..
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by rushlimpdrug January 10, 2008 4:48 PM PST

Don''t tell me Diick Chenney has another daughter out there!
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by akakjb January 10, 2008 6:43 PM PST
''Boys Dont Cry'' had a similar idea except that Brandon Teena became a boy because of gender dysphoria, the overwhelming feeling of being a particular gender trapped in the other genders body. This had nothing to do with that. She was hiding in plain sight, using a male persona to get away with it.

And she''d gotten away with it too if not for those meddling kids and their dog.......
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by speakinup January 10, 2008 7:52 PM PST
"How many Czechs does it take to change a light bulb?
Posted by SkyFive

Don''t know...

But it only takes one Democrat to change a light bulb! They are experts a *** things up!
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by realtalk5950 January 10, 2008 7:55 PM PST
That must be one ugly broad.
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by iceman_1960 January 10, 2008 8:32 PM PST
How many Conservatives does it take to change a lightbulb ?

None.

Light and darkness occur in natural cycles over which man"s feeble lightbulbs have no control.

Right now it"s getting darker on Mars. Are there any burned out lightbullbs there ? No. That proves it.

Don"t listen to politically motivated fearmongers like algore who urge lightbulb replacement for their own aggrandizement.

The burned out lightbulb as the cause of global darkness is the greatest hoax of the 21st century.
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by speakinup January 10, 2008 9:36 PM PST
Iceman_1960 - so philosophical! But, Mars is NOT getting darker right now. It pretty much stays just as dark as it is at this very moment, as at any one point in time.

Just like the sun never sets on the earth. Pretty much, the sun''s rays are striking the earth uniformly throughout the day.

Unless you believe it is flat and rides on the back of a turtle.
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And not a crumb to eat.
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