New twist in Polish ‘Maddie McCann’ fiasco

In a dramatic development, US police have seized the phone of a Polish woman who falsely claimed to be missing British toddler Madeleine McCann.

Police in California have seized a cell phone related to a case involving the Polish woman who claimed to be missing toddler Madeleine McCann, officials said.

Police in the US have seized a mobile phone related to a case involving the Polish woman who claimed to be missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, according to officials.

Speaking to The New York Post on Tuesday morning, Seargent Mike Woodroof of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, south of Los Angeles in California, confirmed that a phone tied to Julia Faustyna’s case was recently recovered, but declined to give further details.

Self-proclaimed psychic Detective Dr Fia Johansson, who brought Ms Faustyna, 21, to California last month following a spate of death threats, previously told entertainment website RadarOnline that the device was voluntarily handed over to investigators during a search and seizure.

It’s unclear what the nature of the investigation is.

The development comes after DNA results proved the young Polish woman who claimed she is Madeleine McCann is not the missing British girl and as it emerges she plans a second DNA test.

Julia Faustyna has recalled a childhood of horrific abuse.

Ms Faustyna took the first test under pressure to prove her claim that she was Madeleine, who was kidnapped in Portugal in 2007 sparking a worldwide hunt for her.

After weeks of waiting, Ms Faustyna’s results confirmed she is not the missing girl, instead showing that she is from Poland, with some Lithuanian and Romanian heritage, The Mirror reports.

Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and medium who has been helping Ms Faustyna, said.

“She is absolutely 100 per cent from Poland.”

“She is a small percentage of Lithuanian and Russian but the test results show she is Polish,” Dr Johansson told RadarOnline.

“At least Julia got the investigators to move on the McCann case – she made things happen,” she said.

The DNA tests come after Ms Faustyna also said she was sexually abused as a child by a man who bore a striking resemblance to the suspect wanted over the abduction of the missing child.

Julia Faustyna told RadarOnline.com she remembered staying at beachfront hotels similar to those in Praia da Luz, the resort town in Portugal where Madeleine McCann was kidnapped in 2007.

Disturbingly, she said she remembered holidaying at exotic locations with strange men, the New York Post reports.

Ms Faustyna said she could recall being forced to consume 35 prescription pills after she was sexually abused at the age of seven, causing her to nearly end up in a coma.

She also recalled a time she was paragliding with a man while wearing only a T-shirt and underwear.

The aspiring musician and model claims she was a victim of sex trafficking.

She told RadarOnline.com that she had a disturbing memory of a man buying her a blue belly-dancing outfit from a market.

Another horrifying memory involved her hiding in a bathroom with another young Polish girl.

“We shouted and cried, panicked, we didn’t want to (leave the) toilet,” she recalled.

Ms Faustyna claims she was a victim of sex trafficking and suffered a skull fracture as a result of the abuse and the injury partially erased her childhood memories.

The Polish woman caused an uproar online after posting on Instagram that she believes she could be the missing British girl, who vanished from her family’s holiday apartment.

The aspiring model and musician recently appeared on the TV show Dr Phil to reiterate her claims after her parents accused her of “lies and manipulation”.

Originally published as New twist in Polish ‘Maddie McCann’ fiasco