13-year-old ‘boy’ is female child abuse suspect, 33

A STUDENT in Norway who posed as a 13-year-old boy turned out to be a 33-year-old woman on the run from police investigating a child abuse case in the Czech Republic.

13-year-old ‘boy’ is female child abuse suspect, 33

Barbora Skrlova duped Norwegian police, classmates, childcare workers and teachers for four months into believing she was a teenage boy named Adam, daily Dagbladet reported.

“Looking back, we can say we wondered about Adam’s behaviour. But this is not easy to know. Children at this age are very different, and can be masculine or feminine,” Ingjerd Eriksen, principal at Marienlyst school in Oslo where the woman was posing as a student, told Dagbladet.

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