Adopted man learns he was stolen from birth mom in Chile | Nightline
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- As a baby, Tyler Graf had been stolen and placed for adoption as part of a government sanctioned plot in Chile. He is now on a journey to reconnect with his biological mother.
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I was adopted from Chile to Sweden when I was 7 years old. Unfortunately my adoption was not legal as my parents were taken from me and I was sold up for adoption. I have two identities and today I have found all my family. I reunited with my family in October 2022... ❤️It was a strong meeting with my mother, father and all my siblings ♥️
I'm glad you found your birth parents ❤️
@@queennefertiti35 Thank you. It's been a strong year for me and my family ♥️ Everything is unreal... 🇨🇱
@@tjejen36 what adoption center was this if i mind asking
@@lucidxfy124 It was through the Adoption Center Sweden. Do you know who Anna Maria Elmgren is ? She took me out from Chile to Sweden...
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He helped me find my mom in Chile after 33 years. Thank you Tyler!!!!
Francisca , maybe share your story with us ?
@@gardensofthegods quit being nosey lol
@@smokeylebear1062 If it's a secret, he wouldn't share his story at all!
@@smokeylebear1062 it's not being nosey
That’s awesome news
I can't imagine the pain his mother must feel when they can't even understand each other because they don't speak the same language. What a terrible crime. What an irretrievable loss.
After 37 years I doubt there is any pain. The guy is not the baby she once saw, and she did not have the baby long enough to have so many memories linked to it. The guy is now a different person and has nothing chilean in him. He is an american, with his own family and country. This kind of mess happens everywhere and in different shades. To give you and example I came to find out my dad wasnt my dad at the age of 54. My mom was doing the husband of the niece of the man I thought was my dad. Now everything makes sense of course. Mothers are people like every body else, they lie, deceive and there are lots of them in jail too. The little chilean lady sooner or later will come to realize the guy she touches and think she loves, is not the baby she so much misses and should move on. As you say, this is an irretrievable loss.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 You don't know a lot about motherhood, do you? I'm sorry for your experience, but it is no way analogous to this one. The pain of losing a child is forever. You don't just "get over it," no matter how many years have passed! The connection between them now is real and precious.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 poor miserable boy 😥
@@figarocalisthenics9516 Your child is always your child no matter how old they get to be. My youngest brother died when he was 16 & I have grieved his death forever, for 44 years to be exact. I guess the reason it hit me so hard is because he was so much younger than me & was only 4 yrs older than my oldest child. It was sort of like he fell between brother & child.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 what the-🤓
Same happened to me. Stolen at birth by my State's contracted Adoption Agency then given to a 'high profile' person who was already a known child molester and spent the next 16 years torturing me. When I recovered my adoption file 40 years later, I was as heartbroken as I was enraged, he was finally criminally convicted last July but nothing can ever replace what he took from me forever.
So sorry- i hope you are doing okay❤
May god bless you x
I hope you are doing better😔
Praying you are recovering from the horrors you spoke of. Such a sad story, just tragic! Hopefully you can navigate through this and have a future of peace. God bless you and your family.🙏🙏🙏❤️
@@StellaLive-le9hf Thanks be to you and the other commenters here for the humane generosity of all of your most kind words and wishes. I've spent many years dealing with and overcoming the events which punctuated my childhood and through the learnings gathered during my endeavours in securing an adequate personal criminal justice response, have for some years now worked in providing probono specialist legal advocacy to other Survivors of similar crimes, a sacred role that I am blessed to undertake which also gifts me some measure of additional therapeutic benefit.
Due to my childhood circumstances and the identity of the relevant offender I was forced to fight an 11-year battle against a co-ordinated campaign of criminally prejudicial corruption on behalf of my State's Police, Public Prosecutor, Statutory Corruption Bodies and many politicians who were attempting to prevent the criminal investigation and prosecution which after many years of very engaged treatment, I so very much needed to be able to finally begin to put the events in question behind me. Rather than prosecute this person however, these agencies, led by the Chief Commissioner's office of my State Police force, instead elected to engage in a sustained 8-year campaign of bastardising behaviour. This included, but was not limited to repeated threats of physical assault, death threats, unsolicited nuisance welfare checks to my home, nuisance phone calls, the filing of false and vexatious criminal charges, an attempt to have me detained and indefinitely incarcerated in a mental health facility and declared a 'fixated terrorist threat' with the intention of either provoking a violent response upon my behalf or when that failed to 'sheep dip' me as a person of poor character and all of which failed. It is estimated that these agencies expended in excess of $2M in taxpayer funds in an attempt to deny me justice and protect the child molester who destroyed my childhood and rendered me profoundly disabled.
As for family, I don't have one of those as I have been estranged from my adoptive family for many years now and am indeed despised by them, both for having 'abandoned' them and bringing my abuser to justice as I finally succeeded in doing in 2021 when he was convicted of the scores of charges that were filed against him and described as potentially the worst domestic child abuse offender in my State's entire legal history. My childhood torturer finally died several months ago and is now in Hell for eternity where he belongs.
The last words I spoke directly to him 32 years after the last time I had seen him were at the sentencing hearing which followed his conviction were from Matthew 18 v 1-7-
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of
heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. "If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have a
large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
Stay safe and be blessed there always.
"I wondered if he was loved, if he was fed well, if he spent time cold." That's a mom for sure. 😭💔
Yes it shows her beautiful heart that the first thing on her mind wasn't being angry about what they did to her, but being concerned for her child's wellbeing.
@@marias6583 True! I seems his birth mom lived better than the adoptive mom. That country life is so healthy and beautiful. Tyler missed out on that, and his tears are heartbreaking
My sentiments too. Mom's are the same. We all worry about whether our child is loved, cold or is well fed.❣
It’s the rich white people that are either buying these kids or adopting them!
YES!!! That part pulled on my heart SO MUCH. 😭 Those are the words and concerns of a real mom. 💜💜💜
The way she always holds him is breathtaking. She’s never stopped loving him. ❤️
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That’s her little boy 😢
mothers love!
@Ye Ye yup ... Unconditional love which can only come from a mother! I've seen stories where the kids did some really really bad things but the mother was always there ❤️💜
they live in an idyllic place, why would tyler want to return to houston?
When the mother said "...I wondered if he ate well..." the tears just started coming because that's exactly how my mother and abuela would think, they never stop thinking about me and my siblings no matter how old we are (we are all married and in our 30's-40's), and to show affection through food is such an essential part of their love for us. Aw man, I need to call my mom.
Yeah, thats the first thing hispanic moms think about. But I would say all moms as well.
Me, too. I cried the whole video.
@@Chris-cx7zk 👌 wow
Thank God he was raised well
❤
I wasn't stolen, but I was given up for adoption at birth. I lived a very good life with the best parents. I always wondered about my mom. Then I did a DNA test at a popular family thing. Two years later, I got matched with my mom! We talked right away and then I flew out and stayed with her and her family for two weeks. It was the most beautiful thing. She was told I had died in a car wreck when I would've been 19. I thought that was so incredibly sad but I made her laugh because I've never even had a ticket! I was able to celebrate my 50th Birthday with her! She said it was the only Birthday of mine she didn't cry. She caught Covid and died shortly after. That was the toughest thing I went through up to that point. What a joy though, that I got to have her in my life for even just a few years. Both families are born again Christians, so I believe I'll see her again some day. One of the touching memories is when my mom got to talk to her over the phone and she thanked her for me. I don't think I've ever cried like that before. What an adventure. My life is a show on Hulu!
Who told your birth mother that you died in a car wreck?
What an amazing story! You were blessed to have two sets of parents. You will see them all again someday.
What's the name of the show?
Wow that’s awesome. I was adopted and found my biological father- he wasn’t a good person and I realized how lucky I was to have been adopted. Some people don’t have the happy ending.
religious churches or sects call them what you will, they are happy to get involved if there is easy money to be made
I know this lady personally. We were friends for 5 years but lost contact. I know her story is true. Nothing makes me happier than the news that she met her son, finally! !
I hope you visit to her one day insha allh
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Did he gain his birth father in the process too??
@@stilldontknowmyname2295 Are you Moslem and Arab? If so perhaps you can find the biological parents (at least the mother and her family)
for a baby boy that was abandoned on May 20th, 1985 on Midan Ramses (main railway station) in Cairo, Egypt.
May 20th, 1985 was the first day of Ramadan. The baby was found by a man, a male employee of the train company.
The man took the newborn, healthy baby to a nearby sort of health centre (next to a church).
Sadly, this health centre handed the baby to a wet nurse who was paid around 55.00 Egyptian Pounds per month to look after the baby.
She had many kids of her own and treated the baby abysmally. Within a few days the baby was near starvation and his little bum was raw
from the urine and feces.
To cut the horror story short, an Egyptian man (a chemist, Dr.phil.) and his German wife adopted the baby in June 1985.
The baby thus was saved at the last minute from a horrible death.
Within a few weeks the baby started recovering from the very good care the loving adoptive mother gave the baby.
The baby is a grown-up man now who lives in Europe but is anxious to find his birth mum, in order to ask her WHY she abandoned him
at Midan Ramses 36 years ago. As well, he is so anxious to find out if he has half-siblings.
@@leekflower1 I don't know what that part of the situation is like. I only know the mom who never gave up looking for her son.
He looks so much like his mother. I am so happy that they found each other.
he actually also looks like the old guy next to the mother, so i wonder if thats his pop as well. Could the pop have been afraid to speak to juju chang?
AMEN, 🙏 THANK YOU JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR FOR REUNITING THEM AFTER SO MANY YEARS,I REALLY THINK THE LOVE OF THE MOTHER, AND THE LOVE HE GAINED, BECAUSE IT'S KNOWN FOR A CHILD WHILE IN THEIR MOTHER'S WOMB ,TO FEEL THE LOVE OF A MOTHER FOR THEM,VISE-VERSA,.THAT KEEP THEM ALIVE WANTING TO FIND EACH OTHER BEFORE THEY PASS ON TO HEAVEN, AMEN 🙏
@@ricodelavega4511 The elderly gentleman may be the mother’s brother.
*George Washington, Stoled Babies OPENLY & SoLd them on the SLAVE MARKETS!!!!*
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The moment I saw the words "stolen" and "Chile", I knew what this was. In some other cases, the parents were "disappeared" -- murdered. This is a sad chapter in Chile's history. I'm happy the man and his family were reunited.
It was during Chile's state terrorism during genocidal dictator Pinochet, a Thatcher's friend.
“To a country I’ve never been to.” So sad, yes, he has been there. I’m so happy his mother is still alive to see him.
This made me cry 😢 she loved him forever that's what a mother's love is. Shame on the Chilean government
Yo tanvien yore🥲🥲🥲💔💔
not just the Chilean government but the US government that supported Pinochet
The US government supported the dictatorships in Argentina Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay. All those countries received assistance from your country to kill, torture and kidnap children.
Shame on your evil empire.
Yes the shame on all who supported these horrible tactics but definitely shame on the Chilean government because it was fair men and children that they sold into slavery not just that the cost of Americans a must for everything the blame yourselves some of this s***
@@JoshuaClintonlive You should focus on shaming your own country for killing millions of people for decades.
The way she says "my son" every time she is referring to him is so heart warming ❤ she is so proud of him!
She saying 'mi niño' which is like my little boy
@@sommy9152 exactamente, lo cual lo hace mas dulce.
Be happy 😊 your adoption mom, loves and wants you for her son
My grandma and grandpa on dad's side, were orphans. 90 years or ago or so. My grandma from Chille and grandpa from England. My mom's parents were German, from the USA 🇺🇸
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“My son”. The love and pride can be felt every time his beautiful mum says those words.
How wonderful to find your birth mother and find out you were never given away, but stolen, and she still loves you.
Unfortunately , he wasn’t the only 1 .. many of these children keep coming forward .🙏😞
Unfortunately**
So many of the international adoptions are coercive or even outright kidnapping, driven by American dollars, no wonder so many countries closed the adoption programs
Right? That is so crazy to think about, my gosh ... I remember hearing about a woman who did something like this here in the states many years ago..Oprah had some of the grown children victims on her show.. I forget her name, but she stole babies by telling mothers their baby died.. And she would abuse the children too I remember one example she left a baby in a carriage outside in ridiculous heat making the poor baby literally burn from the inside out, and she sold them also to high profile "clients" So hard to imagine that kind of evil.
Wow; just wow. 😣
The story of how the USA helped seat Pinochet to protect capitalist investments needs to be taught.
breaks my heart. Pure evil in this world to steal people's children from them.
it could not have happened without the US governments assistance.
Hundreds more were kidnapped in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay by US backed dictatorships. Till this very day the actions of the CIA and the US state department are felt all across the continent and are one of the main reasons for political destabilization.
The harm your country has caused on us is unimaginable
so true
It happens in this country all the time, in family and juvenile courts. In fact, it is happening all across western society. There are many, many grieving parents. It is a business of counties because they get federal funding and they get taxes and licensing fees off all the players who are used to manage and advise in these cases. Often protective parents lose custody of children to their abusers, whether it is sexual, physical or psychological abuse or all of the above. Lawyers for the parent with the means buy custody as even that is adversarial, in the injustice system: A win or lose system. Also, no matter how long you have been married, the minute you are legally separated you are adversaries financially and there is little penalty for hiding finances from your ex even if those funds would also benefit the children more likely when used by the parent who wasn't hiding the finances. Attorneys have rigged the system this way. Children suffer. Government at the lowest level is now more likely to be perpetrating the worst abuses because most people are unaware and uninvolved. The courts try to give everything to the financially well off parent, particularly if male today, including the children and extremely expensive supervised visitation is ordered for the other parent if any contact at all.
@@b.boston8529 yes I have seen such unfairness.
There's a report on this happening in Poland and Ukraine still, and they do big business in the trafficking of babies
He seems very much loved by his biological mother and adoptive family.
My heart goes specially to Dona Hilda ❤️
Oh how aweful this is. I wanted to cry when I heard her first concerns about her son. “Was he loved, Was he eating well, was he cold?” Such a motherly instinct to care and ask those simple questions that mean so much. It shows how much she loved him.
Not surprising, we’ve known that many kids adopted abroad are actually stolen. That’s why I think all adoptions should be open and transparent.
I was adopted and my family closed the Orphanage in 1992 in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 wish more were strong willed like family I got adopted to and make a change - sadly a lot people Europe aren’t stolen rules there are different sadly can drop kid off just for not liking there eyes - America happens more often than Europe
@@TheRealOne87 Um na,you cant compare Bulgaria to the US
@@studiohq of course not I was saying happens more in America than people wanna admit if you read what I wrote your statement wouldn’t have been as what it was 🤦🏽♀️
@@studiohq they're not comparing countries they're comparing situations in each country. There's a difference since you generalized.
China!
im crying ..lm just glad that Tyler was raised well by his adopted parents. and im glad that he met his family.
Me too jen, me too🥺
He is one of the lucky ones. I hope others find their families.
Can you imagine the guilt his adopted mom must have felt when she learned that the son she adopted and raised wasn't an orphan but was stolen? My heart breaks for both families. The birth family for losing their baby and all those years, and the adopted family for learning that they unknowingly helped cause it.
The lowest kind of theft. Who thought it was ok to steal babies.
@@celticwarrior184 coming from a latin country myself, having grown here, I'm SURE that lady adoptive mother knows that no amount of love can replace basic services, medical attention, appropriate schools. His life would have looked very veeeeeery different. He probably wouldn't look similar to how he looks now, due to nutrition issues. He was an extreme preemie...
His mom looks like a good woman. She is very expressive and affectionate, always hugging him. Even speaking about what happened still brings her to tears. She must’ve suffered so much thinking her baby had died. I’m sad she was robbed of her infant son but glad she didn’t leave this world without knowing he was alive and seeing him.
This made me tear up, they both were robbed of 40 years of bonding. And he now knows he was wanted…after the pain comes healing and love.
The way she says “ mi niño” breaks my heart,she has unconditional love for him.
You set the bar quite low for what unconditional love is lady/dude.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 who hurt you?
@@figarocalisthenics9516 u have no idea what that means to Chilenos u weenie 🤡
Absolutely horrible how a midwife could be involved in knowing she’s stealing a baby to be sold. Disgusting
yes but who knows, the goverment behind? Maybe they threatened her family's life. Like a kill or be killed situation..
@@who511 so true. You never know. Most people, put in the same place and situation as other people would do the same thing. It's easy to speak high and mighty from a place of privilege
Absolutely. Really really disgusts me.
Exactly so sad 😭💔
@@abc-yr8nf yeah, people who find they were STOLEN as a baby were OBVIOUSLY in a 'place of privilege'. What planet were you born on again?
I really hope he continues to have a strong relationship with his birth mother and his family in Chile. This is atrocious poor family who lost so much time that can’t be given back!
I'm not gonna lie, this made me tear up. It's sad those years you've missed, but what doesn't kl you only makes you stronger. Your adopted mom is a blessing too. Take care.
The same thing had happened to my birth mother in Kazakhstan in 1998. I just found her last week and the hospital did the exact same thing to her.
Did they lied and said that you died when you’re still alive?
Whoa! That's big news! I wanna say Congratulations for finding out, but I'm unsure if this was taken as good news or otherwise. Wishing you and your family health ❤
I’m so happy for u that you found your birth mom. I hope you have a happy reunification. 💙❤️🧡💛💙
I hope you can meet.
IM SOOOOO SORRRRRYYYYY why whyyyy did they do this to you! I’m sooo sorry
So sad. His childhood was taken away from his mom. And hes identity was taken away. He is more American then from Chile. I'm glad he went back to his roots and know where he actually came from. He missed out in his culture and family.
Of course he is American as he was raised in the USA since he was a baby
@@moshesierra6849 You missed her point. Read to understand not just to reply.
@@moshesierra6849 lol is your name Moshe?
@@evaarroyo100 Lol the USA appropriated the term American because Unitedstatian apparently sounds bad or maybe it was just ego, trying to pretend that the other countries in the American continent didn't exist. Who knows but it's ridiculous yeah.
@@evaarroyo100 yes sure always think the worst. My you’re such an open and loving person 🙄🤮
I'm so, so glad to see them reunited. It's heartbreaking and terrifying how some of the most important places can be so corrupt. My grandfather passed away from Covid in a hospital in Afghanistan in 2020. A few months later that hospital was shut down because it was found that they were hoarding oxygen tanks to sell on the black market. I think about him every day.
My heart breaks for you!
You can see that she loves him so much every chance she gets she hugs him🥰 mi Nino made me cry 😭 and he knows how much he is loved by her, he hugs her back so tenderly as if it has always been that way 💕💕💕 I Love, Love, Love this story! Happy ending ❤ now he knows that he was always wanted and Loved🙏 thank you HaShem for this reunion 🙏
Well said Tyler! You are the richest man in the world surrounded by love and your family truly blessed .
That's NOT HIS FAMILY. HE WAS KIDNAPPED
@@TaurusHere yes I know but he is surrounded by love from both families
@@gmazboog9050 Not all of them go to Good families as we've seen over and over when many are abused and killed. Also, not saying they're not good, but the hurt and love in his eyes for his Real Mom, is heartbreaking bcuz the Criminals in charge of Ripping kids from the Biological families, can NEVER be undone and for them to get away with it, there are those on America's side who are involved and just as GUILTY
@@TaurusHere Agreed , yes i saw the hurt in his eyes 😔 very sad situation . We had a similar situation with one of our family members, sadly she didn't get to meet her biological parents but got to bond with other biological family members in 2019 before she passed in 2020🌹 but yes there are many who are as guilty as the kidnappers some knowingly adopt & some don't.
Yes he is the richest man in the world 🌎,I truly agree with that..No money in the world 🌎 can substitute for the love of a family,a really close knit family... Amen 🙏💯💖🙏
As a Chilean, it is really heartwarming to see that he is learning the language to communicate with his Chilean family. It can be very hard, since we speak with one of the most complicated accents of the region and when you go to smaller towns, the dialect can be very hard to understand. Good for him!
It’s hard because A. Chilean Spanish isn’t just like..one singular language in the sense we typically think. B. The dialects themselves and B. English speakers don’t have any baseline for dialect. You could learn Spanish and go to a Spanish speaking country and not understand a damn thing. You could go to a Spanish speaking country and understand everyone in one city and no one in the next, yet it’s all the “same language” or a territorial difference of the same language. It would be so hard to speak to family if they’re widespread throughout Chile... even if he learns Spanish it’ll be harder for him to communicate in Chile than many other Spanish countries.
I was thinking the same thing, I have a hard time to understand when I visit my family in Chile and I was born and raised there, the dialect changes for sure.
*George Washington, Stoled Babies OPENLY & SoLd them on the SLAVE MARKETS!!!!*
You do have some specific accents and word usage. I basically learned spanish watching colombian and mexican telenovelas, heh, and then I am watching Donde esta Elisa and I am like "wait, what? And that's what they call a baby?" Argentina has the weirdest accent to me though.
@@reginalannister2262 "wawa"? Comes from quechua. In Peru we even have the word "calato" that means naked and isn't used anywhere else
Milions of children like him thru the ages & probably the future ...just heartbreaking 💔
I’m sorry that happened to him and I’m elated that he was able to reunite with his biological family.
I'm so happy that he found his biological mother I want to thank his adopted parents for what they did now he's hold bless you all
Yes,after this ,he is whole, and has the piece of mind that he really needed to know about his Mom, and the rest of his family,thank you Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior 🙏 AMEN 🙏❤️💯🙏
You can see how quickly he adapted. He starts referring to her his birth mom but it quickly becomes “mom”. I wish both sides of his parents and his immediate family peace and heeling.
Yes, there is a change in his heart towards his mother. You sense love growing every day.
I've always watched adoptive documentaries and this one is so heartbreaking. But I'm glad he was able to meet her and build a relationship with his biological mother. Deep parent love. ❤
When she hugged him and said "my son" was so beautiful. I'm saddened this woman was not able to raise her baby boy
I was adopted from Colombia in the early 80s. This story gives me such a sinking feeling. I was told my mom couldn't afford to keep me but these stories I hear of babies being trafficked makes me want to dig a little deeper.
My family that raised me said in Colombia there were billboards basically encouraging mothers to be good countrymen and adopt their kids out to the United States.
My GAWD this is intense.
I am an adoptee as well who uncovered a story of coercion and illegal practices to secure my adoption back in 1991. It will hurt every day until I breathe my last breath to know I was sold to abusers and suffered when I could have been loved and surrounded by family.
This is more common than people even realize.
But everyone deserves to know their story, where and who they came from.
I wish you nothing but luck in uncovering your story. If you ever want to talk I am here ❤️
@@missmaex3 wow! Thank you for sharing and reaching out. It's funny how people are usually like, "oh how wonderful that you were adopted and how cool it is to know that you are actually chosen blah blah blah..." people just don't seem to understand or even fathom that there is so much underneath the surface of how nobody really understands an adopted person's situation or thoughts about their own life and how we came to be where we are at. A lot of people seem to think it's some sort of charmed Disney story and it really isn't that romantic at all... come to find out that there's a lot of us who has some pretty horrific situations happen when we first came to this planet. I am glad for you that you know what has happened within your story although it must have been hard to grasp at times. Thank you for your kindness
@@thedavesiknow4598 oh yes, the "you should be grateful" belief. It is absolute garbage. Why should I be grateful that I lost my entire family? That I had my true identity erased and given a false birth certificate? That I grew up having no idea who or where I came from, no idea of medical history, never seeing someone who looked like me, having to pretend my true family didn't exist to save the feelings of my adopters? I fail to see why I should be grateful for any of that.
I highly recommend you check out the book called The Primal Wound. It's an absolutely imperative read for adoptees, adopters, natural families, anyone connected to adoption. It explains our trauma in a fantastic way and finally validates the feelings we have !
I hope you find out the truth about your birth parents.
@@missmaex3 I couldn’t finish the book. Very informative but triggering
He was literally the missing piece to their family. I can see he’s exactly what they’ve been missing, and they are what he’s been missing. Makes me so sad that this happened Bc he and his mom feel’s robbed. Which they absolutely were! Pray God puts his hands all in this and serves them the justice they deserve!
Yes, Amen 🙏
This story was heartfelt. I'm so glad that he reunited with his birth mom. I'm happy for both mom and son and the entire family.
Wow he looks just like his birth Mom. What a blessing that they were reunited. God bless them 🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing. I am an adoptee from Guatemala to Canada. This story has happened to over 50,000 children from Guatemala during the civil war. Many were stolen or given up because of rape or poor living conditions. Many of us are also only now finding biological families. It’s also cool that Tyler and I share a common passion, we are both firefighters. Cheers to Tyler.
Thank you LORD ❤️
Did you look up for your real family?
I'm adopted from Latin America and this hit hard. You're told your whole life one thing and then find out it was all based on a lie. As an international adoptee you usually assume your biological family just couldn't take care of you for some unknown reason. I rather dislike the "what a beautiful video" comments because it's not beautiful to me. He called it an atrocity! It's horrifying to think of my own daughter being kidnapped and the hospital telling me she'd died at birth.
Sheesh, I wonder what his adopted mom felt seeing him call his bio mom his mother. Complex stuff! And hearing his cute broken Spanish also tugged at my heart, too.
She is his mother and I think his adopted mother does and didn't show him the warmth he needed, she comes across as being closed with her emotions.
What country were you adopted from?
Very complex.
@@orangesoda5472 El Salvador but before the war began. Pro Busqueda took my information but said they probably wouldn't be much help. (Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos helps people who suspect they were kidnapped during the civil war)
@@sherrisonnier1857 I didn't get that impression but hey everyone gets an opinion 🙂 He stated his adoptive family was loving. My adoptive mom was not the most stable or warm woman but she was my MOM, one and only forever and ever.
Absolutely heartbreaking to have lost so many years with her son due to the crimes of others and yet so heartwarming to have been reunited!
Omg, and he looks just like her. It is sad but it seems he had more opportunities in the life that was chosen for him. Poor mama. So glad they were able to reconnect.
My aunt in El Salvador lost her baby girl after birth, (stolen) during the war time. My aunt was forced to give the baby, also was threatened, and she had two other kids to save. Two months ago she received news from my mom's uncle, saying her daughter is alive living in US and was adopted by an American family, she did not know was stolen, she was adopted when was a baby from an (agency) in El Salvador. After DNA test, etc they are trying to reunite, my aunt have been in pain for so many years, now she has peace.
Good for them! Now they don’t have to cross the border illegally.
@@Maremare680 so uncalled for and very mean spirited
@@Maremare680 burn in hell
This exact same story happened to my mom's cousin also about two months ago. Her daughter was able to find out who her mother is through my uncle when they matched on a DNA website. Is there a possibility this is the same story?
@@Saraadiaz98 Hola Sara, la historia muy similar, de que parte son ustedes? Podria ser.
This makes me cry and gives me a sliver of hope. The same thing happened to my mom in Guatemala. She saw her baby girl once and the nurses whisked her away. She kept demanding to see her baby and they told her she died. My grandmother demanded the body be given to them for burial. The doctor said they buried her already... this was almost about 12 hours after birth. They refused to return the body and no way in hell did anyone believe she was buried so quickly. She was fare skin, light hair and grayish eyes. Her father had blue eyes and both my mom and her father are fair skin.
I've taken various dna tests in the hope I can find her. My mom is 81 and still talks about her. I believe 100% she was stolen and sold. It's not every day that a fair skinned Guatemalan gives birth to a white baby. Rumors are that most of the fair skinned babies were sold to Europeans.
it is so awful. White parents have money to pay for the huge adoption fee, therefore it fuels the business.
I pray she lives to see her child again and all is well
If your mom reads the Bible, read to her the passage that God will restore the years the locusts have eaten. (Joel 2:25)
That is truly horrible to hear. What beasts do these kind of things? God bless you and your mother.
@@ECA-14 oh my goodness. This is heartbreaking. I'm sorry for your grandmother. It's a blessing you have your family. What was the name of this agency that got busted for doing this crime ? It's just sad
I'm so glad that the two of you were able to unite. That's a blessing. God bless you and your family.
I just ♥️ how they both are so open & loving like the time was lost but love never was. Amazing they found each other again in this life!! So beautiful!! Beautiful people, his birth mother, adopted mother, himself!! 💖🌎🧬
This is utterly heartbreaking on so many levels. Tyler is a truly wonderful person and I'm thankful that he wasn't abused or adopted by awful parents. But it's just heartbreaking. And outrageous. The reporter asked if he thought this was kidnapping. What an odd question. Of course it was kidnapping.
This is what also happend in ex Yugoslavia, same story, but number is bigger, it can be up to 500 000 stolen babies.
Of course it’s obvious to us looking in from a third party perspective but to a little boy that had always been told he was adopted at birth why would he think he was kidnapped? Sure now he has the fact that he was kidnapped but it still may not feel like he was kidnapped you know? He’s always grown up knowing that he was adopted at birth so why would he feel any differently? I do wonder if the adoptive parents knew that he was stolen or if they were just told this is a baby up for adoption to me it sounds more like a sinister plot by the government to sell babies so they can just make money and screw the parents that one of the children will just gonna take them
@@jovanavujosevic907 wtf how can people do this 🥺
@@lynzblk Don't know. To me this is the worst crime that one can do. The saddest thing is here most people dont even believe that it happend, or thay just dont give a F. Goverment dont wont to help, police also.
@@jovanavujosevic907 I had no idea. Thank you for that info..😥
I can’t get over the level of corruption. It’s abhorrent and shameful and disgusting. The perpetrators should be held accountable.
It happens every day in every country.
It has to stop.
Facts
We put s much trust on governments.
Pinochet is dead and never paid, but never forget that it was Nixon who put him in power.
Unfortunately no one was held accountable AFAIK. I'm Chilean and former social worker Telma Uribe, who was over 90 years old kept records of over 500 illegal adoptions involving kidnapped children, but I don't recall that anyone was ever held accountable.
Omg I am crying!!! Breaks my heart but what a beautiful reunification. Wish you all the best. 🙏🏼🌹Beautiful family, lovely wife. He’s going to be a great father.
How beautiful to have restoration of their family~
God bless them all!
Seee this goes deeper than we think… they stole his LIFE, identity, language, culture, & lineage!! This is completely awful!! 🥺 for everyone child stolen from THIER family I pray they are one SAFE… and secondly they deserve closure…
Sounds like slavery
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@@tiffanyingram3444 I wondered if anyone else realized that.
he still married a beautiful whytte woman so hush.
The way she wraps her arms around him. My god 🥺🥺🥺
I live in France and I'm thinking about a guy I now was adopted by a french family from Chile. He and his sister (non biological but Chilean too) both in their 30s now , this gives me chills this could be their story 😢
I literally balled through this whole thing God Bless his mama and him
I'm a mother, to one son...I had him at 19yrs old..many times my parents told me I couldnt have him.i ran away with the father whom was very abusive..stripped me of my soul mentally and physically. I suffered tremendously for 4 yrs. I NEVER regretted my child. Never blamed my child for being here at the time, I loved him more than my own life, because my life at home wasnt a happy one. I wouldve given my life for my son only god knows, if someone wouldve taken him from me? I wouldve searched the world to find him. Today, hes 50 yrs old a grown man with 2 sons. I am so blessed and happy that I brought him to this world, because HE is my world, without him back then, wouldve been the end of my world.
And I married at 19, had my son at 21, abandoned & left homeless & penniless by my husband at 23, divorced at 24. Ex-husband never bothered with our son again. I had to work full time to keep myself, pay the legal fees, cover costs & fares etc for my son. Then local government decided to put him up for adoption. I opposed this in court with no lawyer & won. Brought him up with no financial or other help from his father till he left school at 18. He married his penfriend from America at 22, had a son & daughter. Then, without warning, they went to live in America. I paid for us to visit each other but then he cut me off & I don't even get any answer back from him or his children - I found out about my g-g-dtr by chance. He's always been cold, hard & bitter but I did all I could for him. I love & miss him but he's so bitter I wonder sometimes if adoption may have suited him better, if only to justify his bitterness.
D, you’re obviously ignoring his reasons for why he has cut you off. So many parents are told why and refuse to listen and take responsibility for their actions.
@@ddempsey9642, u need to ask urself why ur own child cut u off. maybe u are the problem
But she was told that her premature baby was dead
@@ddempsey9642 I feel so sad about your story. Yes sometimes they tend to blame us the birth mothers, whether it was our decision to leave or the fact that an abusive womanizer left us, or our child was sent for adoption because we were too young or being misjudged whether WE could give them a better life. I So understand you. We are always judged for being Mom, For fighting the fathers in court to get our babies back..or for being too young.I went through hell and back with my childrens father. I had everything against me. My parents (cause I got pregnant out of wedlock. And the father, because after my son was born he showed his true colors so to speak. Horrible 4 years but here I am alive..7 grandkids 3 kids, all adults, whom I raised alone. Except for the youngest. I married when she was 4.. and a more Peaceful life. Well deserved I believe. But those days of horror only made me stronger and strengthened my faith in god that in time I would be ok. Yes I too went through hunger, poverty, and depression. I too left home at 18..with an abusive man..I didnt know he was that way. People probably wonder, WHY do we stay? ..that is the million dollar question. Mine was, it was either my sons life or mine. Back in the 70s, pregnancy was a sin in my family.
I’m glad that she finally found her son, after decades. He was robbed from his country and culture. Now he is a father, his kid will meet his grandparents.
It is BEYOND a blessing that they reconnected. --- My heart is BREAKING for them, but in the end, I'm happy for their reunion. 💜🙏🏾💜
Tyler, I learned Spanish (fluently), on my own. You will pick up on it over time. I’m so happy you found your birth family. You’re so lucky to have 2 sets of parents. Thank God you have learned this sad truth. It’s a new journey for you, your family, and many others. It is your story. Your story is not over yet. It has just begun. Keep pushing forward. Many prayers!!! 🙏🙏🙏
I Don’t think he’s so lucky to have had two sets of parents when he was meant to have one. He is only blessed that he didn’t end up in hands of abusers. But people should always question getting children from other countries.
the way she eats up as many hugs as she can get just breaks my heart! What an awful thing to have stolen from you!
This makes me so damn angry.. Heartless, absolutely heartless.. I'm so glad they found each other..
hundreds more were kidnapped in argentina, brazil, chile, paraguay and uruguay with absolute and complete backing of the US government.
The US assisted and backed the dictatorships that kidnap, torture and kill thousands in the region.
So happy he found his family and they are still here for him. So sad he had to go thru life not knowing the truth. Bless him.
This is so heartbreaking. What kind of people could do this. I wish them nothing less than a joyful and happy time as they start towards their future.
This video brought me chills. I was born in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. I just keep thinking that I would’ve been stolen if I had poor or leftists parents or if I was indigenous. It’s so upsetting and humane what many went through under Pinochet’s regime.
:’( I can’t imagine the survivors guilt. I’m so glad you are safe. Praying for you & all of the human beings affected by this disgusting fuckery :’(
Sorry but could have happened under Pinochet or Allendes. And, not needing to be indigenous or poor. Could have happened to any human.
Another example of how evil dictatorships can be, no matter if they're from the right or left.
The Pinochet regime was uniquely evil, and in the South America of the 70's and 80's that really says something.
My step grandma lives in Chile and was born during that time. When I was 18 and legally able to vote she told me how lucky I was to have always grown up in a country with Democracy. I heard about her life and what it was like to be alive during his rule so to always be happy I can choose my leader and do what I want without fear of repercussion. I’m so sorry that you and so many others had to deal with that and the aftermath. I hope you are able to heal somehow and enjoy the life you have now.
Taking a child away from a mother is sick. Shame on them 😞
*George Washington, Stoled Babies OPENLY & SoLd them on the SLAVE MARKETS!!!!*
This is so heartbreaking! As a mom this breaks my heart have your child stole from you. Bless them all.
Wow, this was heartbreaking and touching at the same time. Want to see the rest of this story.
When you hear a story like this you realize how cruel/greedy the world can be. God Bless all those who have had this confusing life event.
I'm glad they are reunited. A mom's love is unending.
This is so heart breaking.
Only a few months before I married, my husband lost his daughter to adoption coercion. The loss of my step daughter, my childrens' sister, has been the most painful thing I have ever endured.
My mother also lost custody of my brother and she is a wonder mother. I have watched her pain over the last couple of decades. The pain never leaves, it only changes how you deal with life.
I can not imagine the pain of losing your birth child in this way. This really is a trigger for me and breaks my heart.
When she said "Mi niño(My son)... yeah I felt that bro💪💯
How many mothers in Chile live with the doubt in their heart after being told their baby is dead and now wondering if that was true or if they have a child out in this world somewhere.💔🙏 I don't believe I could ever recover from something like this God bless these women and children.
the few from another country i've spoken to all say its like having a candle somewhere in your chest . what that dims and goes out you can feel it in your bones that the baby is no longer alve. its kind of like how identical twins can feel one another's presence from afar.
Some adoptions were also coerced in the USA, primarily by churches, families, and agencies, not the government. Mostly earlier in the 20th century, 1950s, 60s, 70s. International adoption became more popular partially because fewer babies available in US: increased access to birth control/abortions, etc. Women were more able to get jobs and support selves as single parents too. Another example - adoptions were aggressively coerced in Ireland. See 'Philomena' book and movie.
The Governments were very much implicated, also!
there was also some home for unwed mothers in ireland and they found a mass grave next to wear it used to be with a LOT of children's remains.
Let me guess….Catholic Church was behind it on both Ireland and us
💔 please don't forget how many native American baby's were ripped from their own mother's that died in the care of them. Or how they were just tossed around to an adopting center
E H, my older sister was coerced (by the hospital) into giving up her baby boy in Wyoming in the late sixties. She was a teen, single mother and there was a family in another part of the state that was looking to adopt. Thankfully, they reunited just last summer because he found a match on one of those DNA sites His adoptive mother died when he was a young boy so he pretty much grew up without a mother. Coincidently, we all had moved to the Pacific Northwest since then so are relatively close together.
I am crying. The mom was so dam happy
Amazing story! This coastal Alabama gal just celebrated my 73rd birthday on the 5th and was adopted by a military family when I was 4 in 1954 in Germany, found my bio father's birth family 3 years ago after searching my whole life!
So lovely to see them trying to make up for all the lost hugs and kisses every 5 seconds
That's ALL I SEEN 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰, EVERY SECOND I'M ESTATIC!!! God Is ALL AROUND THEM
So sad she didn't get to see him grow up but I'm glad she has him in her life now.
Unbelievable. So heart-rending for him and his Chile mom.
Hearing her say My son and him saying mama..😭 such a sad story for his Mom. Glad she got that sweet sweet ending.
I was adopted and that was hard enough! I can’t imagine the poor birth mom thinking her child was dead, and the child finding out he was never meant to be away from his family!
From one Chilean to another. I hope he embraces the beauty of the culture and country he was robbed from. So happy his story ended on a positive.
These things are happening as we speak in Eastern Europe. If you have been adopted in the last 30 years from Bulgaria, Serbia/Yugoslavia, Romania etc now is the time to check the story of your adoption and find your ancestors. You might be a stolen baby.
I'm so grateful for them being able to have a reunion. I cannot fathom how many people were hurt by these inhumane actions. May there be justice 💚🌟
🙏🏽 so hurtful and very cruel what they did to him and his mother.
agreed, whatever it was i guess i agree must be true
and many others...
I recently found a report on these kind of things happening in Poland and Ukraine in makeshift maternity hospitals designed for stealing and trafficking babies to ultra rich weirdos other countries
@@mikivanduyn9630 I hope other people born around this time in Chile can be blessed with finding out their stories.
It’s crazy I didn’t even know these things still happen.
Im adopted
My birthfather is from Uruguay
Luckily i speak spanish fluently
But its a journey.....
Hi, greetings from Uruguay!
Thank you and wish you all nothing but the best. So many countries went through this... Chile... Central America... so sorry. My mother who was born in 1950 continues to search for her biological mother. I hope she will too find family soon... never lose the hope
God bless this mom and son and their whole families. I’m so glad that they found each other.
I am so happy to see how his mother found happiness again, my mother used to say "the love of a mother for her child never dies"
A mother's love for her children is powerful ,unending..
As a mother of 2 adult children, I could not IMAGINE having them stolen from me. Children are a piece of their mother's heart. I'm glad he found her and I hope those involved in his kidnapping are caught and punished.
Who was the US president at the time, they were complicit in what happened in Chile at the time.
@@ABC1701A I think we don't know that. The same thing could still be happening!
Lady you cant compare loosing kids that had a life with you, with one that was only minutes outside your womb and that you were told was dad. There is no need to look for imaginary pain when your situation is so different. With regards to being happy that he found out who was his bio mother, I have mixed feelings because now it is way too late to do anything with this discovery. He will never love this new people, he might learn to like them, but the chilean cultrue is sooo diferent than the american that accepting ideas that come from the last century will be difficult for him.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 man speak for yourself and stop being so bitter. I miscarried and for me my first child is that baby. You have no clue how a mothers heart works. I had a granma whos son died as a child and every year on his death day she wouldnt eat. God knows that poor womans heart must have been burning.
@@figarocalisthenics9516 how can you say !!! he will never love these new people, of course he can love people from other cultures and have a connection now. He was always wondering about his past and now he’s looks like he’s interested in learning more Spanish and about the his other culture. Just because you’re raised in America does not mean you can learn another culture. I did it myself.
I was adopted from Guatemala in the 80s and my adoptive parents had a hard time bringing me to my new home in Canada BECAUSE of the illegal adoptions and kidnapping of babies and toddlers back then. Thankfully my parents had all the right documents and the approval from the lawyer. ❤❤❤
Awwww que lindo! God bless them, he’s mom is so sweet, and he’s adopted mother a good caring lady ❤
Imagine having a child that u were told died and then u find out they're alive and well. That is HUGE!!!
The manner in which Tyler's mother holds him dearly is just heartbreaking to see considering what she went through all these years she thought he was dead. There are definitely more cases like hi outhere waiting to hopefully be discovered. I am glad Tyler has been reunited with his biological family. The way his other mother shows so much love for him reminds me of my mother.
There are so many tragedies with children being trafficked, losing parents in wars, etc and not having a sense of identity. Before there was DNA testing, there was little way to find families of origin.
What's even worse is that the regime (Pinochet) responsible for this was supported by the US ☹
Whew, this was heavy. I could definitely relate, even though my case isn’t exactly the same, I could still feel the pain, & the time lost (never to be replaced) in this story. U see my daughter’s mother stole my daughter away from me. I never had the rights that every father should have…God given rights. I never had her for any holidays, Christmas, birthdays, etc. Every attempt that was made by me to be in my daughter’s life was shot down. She (my daughter’s mother) destroyed a bound that she had no right to destroy. My daughter is now 10 years old, & I barely know her, & vice versa. They recently moved to a different residence, & I have no idea where that residence is?? I’ve since turned it over to God, & it doesn’t Upset me like it used to. Pray for the family featured here in this special report, & please pray for me as well. God Bless! 🙏🏿
If you want to have contact you have to fight. Have some time with your daughter
Thank God for this beautiful reunion. So sad for the mom but glad she found him in the end. Greetings from India.