Finding out your parents kidnapped you and weren't your real parents

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..how do you think anyone could cope with that knowledge... ?

In todays news the story of a boy who was abducted in Oakland California, age 6 and raised by his kidnappers in NY.. has just been found age 79 years old...

The abduction of a six year-old boy from Oakland in 1951 has been solved 73 years on - and incredibly, there's a happy ending.

Luis Armando Albino has been found safe and well thanks to a dedicated niece who never gave up hope of tracking down her long-lost relative.

Albino, who's now 79, was abducted by a woman on February 21, 1951 from a park in West Oakland where he had been playing alongside his older brother, Roger, who was ten.

The woman got his attention and lured him away by tricking him, promising that she would buy him candy.

Little Luis was then flown across the country to the East Coast where he was raised by a New York city couple as if he were their own son.

Luis' mother never stopped hoping that he might one day turn up safe and well. Tragically, she passed away in 2005 aged 92 without ever learning what had happened to her much-missed son.
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Above with his long lost brother

full story here...
Boy abducted in California in 1951 aged six found alive 73 years on

For those who can't get past the paywall.. the upshot of the story is that.. the kidnappers who raised him by pretending to be his parents, are long dead so this man is unable to get any answers.. but he did get to meet his terminally ill older brother just before he passed..
 

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There are over 300,000 children kidnapped each year in the U.S. Among all of the children that are most at risk of being kidnapped are children that are being fostered. I think the number has grown since I last checked.
 

Puzzling, heart-touching story. Leaves much to speculate about... especially for Luis Armando Albino himself.

Minor point, since the story seems authentic: I can't make sense of that B&W image of Luis as the cute kid with a ukulele. Fine print at bottom gives the source as NBC, one of the venerable, big broadcasting orgs in the U.S. Provides an air of authenticity. To me, the image has a slightly disparate look from top to bottom... almost seems like a painting in shades of grey, or a piece of graphic art. ??
 
Well, as we learned a few years ago, that was my dad's story. He was given to my putative grandparents by a relative and his 16-year-old girlfriend to care for him until she "got on her feet" and was able to provide for him.

Two years later, she wanted him back and they weren't willing to give him up, so they joined the circus and stayed away for two years.

He was a lot better off with them as his birth mother made a lot of poor decisions in life.
 
What a tragedy all the way around. What was in the mind of those kidnappers. And how could they raise this child without caring what they did to the parents.
 
Remy said:
What a tragedy all the way around. What was in the mind of those kidnappers. And how could they raise this child without caring what they did to the parents.
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terrible wasn't it ?.. I kept the same thing.. but then I thought it shows what evil is all around us in the form of normality. These kidnappers acted like normal people to their ''children'' and doubtless to their friends and family as well ... yet they were deeply evil...

Thousands of children disappear every year.. very few are searched for by the police .. where do those children go ?.. it doesn't bear thinking about
 

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