A relative of a Roma Gypsy couple accused of abducting a girl found in their care said the child was given to them and that she was well looked after.
The youngster, known as Maria and aged about four, was found living in squalid conditions in a Roma camp near the central Greek town of Farsala on Wednesday.
She was with people who were pretending to be her parents, but DNA tests later proved they were not.
Kostas said the child was very loved The couple, a 39-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, were arrested and charged with abducting a minor.
But a man calling himself Kostas, the brother of the 39-year-old male, said Maria was very loved and cared for.
"We got this girl in a very nice way. We raised her. We got her. She was given to us and we raised her," he said.
"She had problems with her eyes. We took her to the doctor, we took her everywhere.
"We didn't take her to sell her. We loved her so much, with so much passion."
A Roma woman walks next to the house where the girl lived Giorgos Tsakiris, the general secretary of the Roma association in Farsala, said the girl had a good life with the people who were raising her.
"I can tell you better than her other siblings, the biological ones," Mr Tsakiris said.
"She spent her days very well and that is why the little girl loves them and what they say about abductions is not true."
The girl is being looked after by The Smile of the Child charity An international search is now under way to find Maria's real family.
Authorities say they have received enquiries from all over the world, including the UK.
The girl, who is now being looked after by The Smile of the Child charity, was found when police raided the camp in search of drugs and weapons.
A police officer became suspicious when he noticed Maria bore no likeness to her supposed family.
Members of the Roma community where the girl was found living Further investigations into the couple raised even more suspicions.
Authorities allege the mother claimed to have given birth to six children in less than 10 months, while 10 of the 14 children the couple registered as their own are unaccounted for.
Maria's discovery has given hope to the family of Ben Needham, a British boy who disappeared from outside his grandparent's farmhouse on the Greek island of Kos in 1991.
A poster released in the search for Maria's real parents Ben's sister Leighanna, 20, told Sky News: "Obviously, it's been a strong belief of myself and all my family that Ben was taken by gypsies for child trafficking or illegal adoptions and this case just shows that they can be found.
She added: "I believe that the camp the little girl was found in was looked at (during the investigation into her brother's disappearance).
Ben Needham disappeared in Greece "But 22 years ago, the Greek police were scared of the gypsies and pretty much point-blank refused to go into the camps ... so our inquiries into these camps never fully got covered."
Ms Needham said the same technology could help find her long-lost brother.
"I think that would be a brilliant thing to get our DNA out there, even if it's not actually Ben but any siblings or any children maybe of Ben (that are found) then that could hopefully lead us to him," she said.
Maria's discovery has also buoyed the hopes of missing Madeleine McCann's parents.
Clarence Mitchell, a spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann, said: "They have always maintained that until there is evidence to prove otherwise missing children can still be out there waiting to be found."
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