No birth certificate, no school – ten-year-old lived “under the radar”

A now ten-year-old girl in Dresden was not registered with the authorities and did not go to school. “The child was never officially registered, for example through a birth certificate or a report to the responsible local or registration authorities,” said the spokesman for the State Office for Schools and Education, Clemens Arndt, when asked. It is a difficult situation for the authorities when parents deliberately keep a child “under the radar”. The “Bild-Zeitung” had previously reported.

The case of the Paul family of six became known a few weeks ago because they were living on a sidewalk in Dresden and went on a hunger strike. The family had to move out of their house after being evicted.