A father is accused of collecting his daughter from an orphanage only to abandon her at a rubbish dump in Ukraine months later. Officials are launching an inquiry after a girl who is believed to have spend Christmas on the tip was found living in a tent used by homeless scavengers and searching the dump for scraps in the city of Odessa in south-central Ukraine. and handing her over to social workers who returned her to the care home..Children's worker Nata Samokhina, who eventually discovered the girl, said: 'It is incredible how many people passed by and did not pay attention to her, none of them called the police.'Nata confirmed that the girl's biological father, whose name was not reported, had collected the child from the orphanage in June this year. She claims he had simply decided it was too much work for him, and had abandoned her.Valentina Kartasheva, who works at the orphanage said: 'We did not want to give her to him, we had a feeling. But we had to obey the law. 'Thank God she is alive. She is currently in a state of shock.' Share this article Share Kartasheva has stressed that after undergoing all the necessary medical checks, Anastasia, whose age has not been reported, would return to her friends that she had in the children's home.Representatives of the orphanage have highlighted that they would do their best to make sure Anastasia's father loses his parental rights to prevent him from trying to claim her again. Girl found living on rubbish dump after she was 'abandoned by father' dailymail,news,Christmas,Ukraine
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