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Barbora Skrlova and another woman also face more serious child abuse charges.

Ms Skrlova and five other adults are believed to belong to a secretive cult, allegedly founded by her father.

After the child abuse scandal erupted Ms Skrlova went on the run, reappearing months later in Norway, where she posed as a 12-year-old boy.

The Czech media has been haunted by the face - or rather faces - of Barbora Skrlova for over a year.

Victim or participant?

Initially, she appeared as a shy, 13-year-old girl called Anicka, with thick glasses and brown hair tied up in ponytails.

Then there was the shaved head and dark, sunken eyes of Adam, the 12-year-old Czech schoolboy who turned up in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

And finally a pale, nervous-looking woman wearing a woolly hat and clutching a teddy bear, being led away by police at Prague Airport.

Ms Skrlova faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison on the deception charge.

But the five adults also face child abuse charges, after a naked boy was found locked in a broom cupboard in the children's home where Ms Skrlova was living.

He had been beaten, tortured and forced to eat his own vomit.

The adults accused of carrying out the abuse are thought to belong to the secretive cult.

The court must determine whether Barbora Skrlova was, as she maintains, a victim of abuse or a willing participant.

(BBC)

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