{"id":63918,"date":"2015-05-19T16:29:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=63918"},"modified":"2015-05-24T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T18:25:55","slug":"raped-16-woman-meets-daughter-77-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/raped-16-woman-meets-daughter-77-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Raped at 16, mother reunites 77 years later with the baby she placed for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>It was 1928 and 16-year-old Minka Disbrow was picnicking in the woods with a friend when three men approached. One of the men acted as the lookout. The other two men raped them.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Disbrow, described as an innocent farm girl, discovered she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->She gave birth to a baby girl, whom she named Betty Jane. And Disbrow made the tough decision to place her daughter for adoption, saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurt. It hurt to give her up because you\u2019d been with her for a whole month. But you knew it was the best for her and I had to go on. I had to go on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1RO9ZsRc-o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Disbrow continuously and faithfully wrote letters trying to find out about her daughter, but no news ever came. Finally, after 77 years, Disbrow\u00a0prayed one more prayer to God to just let her see Betty Jane. She promised she wouldn\u2019t interrupt her life or bother her, but said she just wanted to see her\u2014 to see what she looked like, and what her grandchildren and great grandchildren looked like.<\/p>\n<p>It was around that time, in 2006, that a judge finally released the sealed adoption records and Betty Jane, now called Ruth, found her mother.<\/p>\n<p>The two women were reunited and say that it\u2019s as though they were never apart. Disbrow was able to meet not only her daughter, but her daughter\u2019s family, as well \u2013 generations of people that wouldn\u2019t exist without Disbrow\u2019s brave decisions to choose life and give her daughter the best chance she could through adoption.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/8.2zkmd\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v2zkmd-she-meets-the-baby-she-gave-away-as-a-teen-77-years-later.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mother meets daughter for first time after 77 years<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/user\/littlethings\/\" target=\"_blank\">littlethings<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rumble<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cathy LaGrow, Disbrow\u2019s granddaughter, has written a book about the reuniting of mother and child called &#8220;The Waiting. &#8221; You can see a video about the reunion <a href=\"http:\/\/minka.littlethings.com\/minka-reunites-with-daughter\/?utm_source=LTas&amp;utm_medium=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=shocking\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1928 and 16-year-old Minka Disbrow was picnicking in the woods with a friend when three men approached. 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