Sold Adoptee Reunites With Birth Mother After 50 Years
During the time between 1950 and 1965, around 200 babies were sold into black market illegally. And recently a news was broken that some of those ‘babies’ who are now all grown adults, have returned to their birth parents and have re-united with them.
Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks was the doctor active in that area, who was known to perform illegal abortions and he even gave babies away to the women without informing the birth mothers of those babies. The babies who were found – Hughes and Melinda, they were introduced to the site “ancestry.com” which helps people to find their birth parents through DNA testing.
Ancestry.com is known as the most successful DNA site, which has around 7million DNA markers saved in its database, they helped Hughes and Melinda for free to track their matches down. Ancestry.com is the place to be at, if you need to find out about your family tree or what-so-ever.
Hughes started off by finding a match with his first cousin and as the whole process continued to proceed, she even found her own brother through siblings DNA test and Hughes could feel the loosened ends of her family being tied up.
Later on, Hughes was taken to meet her biological family as she was very eager to meet them after so long. Hughes’ biological mother was deeply saddened ever since her babies got kidnapped 51 years ago. She knew she had missed the most important years of her children’s lives, which could never ever return.
Hughes’ sibling recalled the time his family had to live in knowing that a part of their family is taken away from them and they now have to live the rest of their lives knowing that now, there is nothing left for them to do except for waiting and hoping for a miracle to happen.
Thelma Tipton, who is Hughes biological mother revealed how anxiously she had waited for this moment to return. The doctor, Jugarhty Hicks even made the mother sign a death certificate, to create a masquerade to hide the whole act of disgust that he performed. But now that the most important member of their family has returned, they are all set to celebrate and make up for all the time she had lived without her daughter.