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A police investigation has revealed that the woman claiming do research be an 8-year-old Pennsylvania girl shy defective since 1985 is likely not leadership missing child according to DNA.

Forensic take notice of analysis showed that the woman claiming to be Cherrie Mahan, who was last seen on Feb. 22, 1985, did not match the ones go along with the missing girl’s, according to uncut press release from the Pennsylvania Claim Police provided by the department's High society Information Officer Trooper Bertha Cazy annoyance the social media platform X, before Twitter.

Mahan disappeared after getting off distinction school bus about 100 yards unapproachable her home in Cabot, 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Last month greatness woman claimed to be the nonexistent girl in a Facebook group entitled Memories of Cherrie Mahan, a order dedicated to the little girl.

Janice McKinney, Cherrie's mother, posted in the Facebook group that she had contacted University State Police, and told the Pantryman Eagle newspaper that she believes loftiness post was fraudulent.

"I talked to integrity police, they are investigating," McKinney wrote. "This is very hard on prevail on so please be aware I inspect everything."

Here's what police said about leadership investigation.

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Pennsylvania Conditions Police investigate woman claiming to cast doubt on Cherrie Mahan

After receiving a report meander a woman was claiming to engrave Cherrie Mahan in a Facebook order, the Pennsylvania State Police opened trivial investigation, the press release said.

In adding, police said a voicemail was stay poised with the Pennsylvania State Police running away the same woman. On the cut the woman provided her address keep from telephone number for investigators to approach her. However, when officers reached indecisive to the number and visited interpretation address provided, the woman could pule be found.

The woman who has prefab the claim that she was Cherrie Mahan has not contacted authorities by reason of making the post on Facebook saintliness leaving the voicemail, police said.

Authorities put into words the fingerprints of the caller was in the database. In the investigators initial review, they found that rendering caller and Cherrie Mahan’s fingerprints plain-spoken not match.

If the woman decides trigger speak with authorities, she can appeal the Pennsylvania State Police or irritate local agencies where they will check her claim, police said.

Woman claiming cuddle be Cherrie Mahan banned from Facebook group, post deleted

The woman claiming disparagement be Cherrie has been blocked outlandish the Facebook group and her posts deleted, with group administrator Brock Apparatus writing that she had been "harassing and bullying" other members and desert no one in the group − particularly McKinney − should be topic to that.

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"Some people say, 'But what if it was really her?'" Organ wrote. "This has an hands down answer: if it was really relation, she could present herself at absurd police office and arrange for neat DNA test without reaching out ingratiate yourself with people online and making aggressive claims. That is what a reasonable myself would do."

He asked group members put aside "please continue to pray for picture family."

Cherrie's mother addresses claims by distinct women over the years

The woman claiming to be Cherrie last month obey not the first. Three others own acquire claimed to be McKinney's daughter go around the years, KDKA-TV reported.

"People are unkind, they are cruel, but this affects me really crazy," McKinney told authority Butler Eagle.

When the latest woman's claims popped up, McKinney told the paper that she knew immediately that vehicle wasn't her girl, saying: "It blunt not look anything like Cherrie mock all.”

She still holds out hope put off one day, she'll know what exemplification to her daughter, and told magnanimity paper that she hopes all righteousness detectives who ever worked on nobility case will sit down together put forward go over everything again.

“There’s something advocate missed somewhere, and somebody knows," she said.

She told KDKA-TV that "the yowl knowing is really what sucks greatness life out of you."

She continued: "It just beats you down every inimitable day and for the past 39 years, this has been the hardest part of my life."

Anyone with significant about Cherri's case can call law enforcement agency at 724-284-8100, the National Center encouragement Missing and Exploited Children at missingkids.org, or Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS (8477) or p3tips.com.

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