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Leigh Mcmanus & Justin Kelly

Madeleine McCann latest: Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann 'finally has a family who cares' after mystery trip to US

The young Polish woman who went viral in recent weeks after claiming to be missing British child Madeleine McCann "finally has a family who cares".

Julia Wendell, 21, was flown to the US by spokesperson and psychic medium Fia Johansson last week and is currently living in a safehouse in the US.

Johansson has claimed the young woman at the centre of a media storm had been receiving a number of death threats and even suggested one sick online troll put a bounty on her head.

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Julia previously amassed over a million Instagram followers after posting "evidence" to suggest she might be missing Madeleine, who vanished in 2007 aged just three during a family holiday to Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Dr Fia Johansson, a private detective and self-professed medium who is probing Julia's claims, is the one looking after Julia and has shared frequent updates on her Instagram.

(persianmedium/Instagram)

And today, March 14, Johansson said that Julia told her that she feels like now is "the first time she has a family that cares".

"She said this is the first time she feels she has a family that cares. My kids and my dogs love her angelic personality," she wrote on Instagram alongside an image of Julia.

Dr Johansson had earlier shared pictures of Julia enjoying the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Universal Studios, and wrote that the young woman thinks people in the US are "lovely and welcoming".

She previously said Julia's mum and dad are refusing to take a DNA test.

(persianmedium/Instagram)

Julia's family in Poland have denied her claims. They have also apparently blocked her phone number.

Dr Johansson and her team have been in Wroclaw (the city Julia supposedly grew up in) where she said they found no hospital records for Julia relating to the first five years of her life.

The investigator is confident Julia is not who her family would have you believe.

She told RadarOnline: "We are still conducting an investigation but Julia is definitely not the biological daughter of her parents in Poland.

(METROPOLITAN POLICE/AFP via Gett)

"We have a lot of evidence right now that shows Julia was definitely trafficked to Poland from another country by an international sex trafficking group."

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