{"id":296883,"date":"2023-08-23T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=296883"},"modified":"2023-08-27T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T03:56:10","slug":"dna-test-shocking-truth-adopted-siblings-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dna-test-shocking-truth-adopted-siblings-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA test reveals shocking truth about adopted siblings abandoned two years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adopted brother and sister, Frank and Vicky, were raised in Staten Island by their adoptive parents and grew up with another brother, their parents’ biological son. Now ages 20 and 19, the two recently got the surprise of their lives when they learned<\/a> through a DNA test that they are actually biological<\/em> brother and sister.<\/p>\n

Their adoptive parents, Angela and Dennis Laffin, had a biological son, Nicholas, when they began to deal with infertility and tragically lost two babies during pregnancy. They decided to grow their family through adoption, and adopted Frank, who had been found in a diaper bag outside of Bellamy’s Christian Daycare in Staten Island in 2002. Though they had decided after adopting Frank that they weren’t going to seek out another adoption, just over a year later in 2004, Angela heard about an abandoned baby girl.<\/p>\n

Vicky was found wrapped in a blanket under a toilet tank at Richmond University Medical Center, also in Staten Island, by a cardiology technician named Claudia. Angela called her caseworker to ask about the baby girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy caseworker was like, \u2018Why? Are you interested?’ I said, \u2018It\u2019s a girl, right?\u2019 She said, \u2018Yes.\u2019 And I didn\u2019t need a second to think about it. I said, \u2018I want her.\u2019 I didn’t even call my husband!” Vicky was then also adopted by Angela and Dennis.<\/p>\n

It was recently that Vicky and Claudia, whom Vicky knew growing up as her mom’s close friend, revisited<\/a> that bathroom, which is now an electrical closet. Vicky had known she was adopted, but hadn’t heard the story of how she was found.<\/p>\n