Texas Firefighter Searches for the Truth About His Birth Family, Finds Shocking Bombshell
A Texas firefighter was adopted by a “very loving, caring, family,” but after becoming a father himself he wanted to learn more about his birth story. What Tyler Graf discovered was not what he could have ever expected…
A Texas firefighter was adopted by a “very loving, caring, family,” but after becoming a father himself he wanted to learn more about his birth story.
What Tyler Graf discovered was not what he could have ever expected.
“I think it was just knowing that my story did start before I was adopted. So, it’s kind of like missing the first five minutes of the movie,” he told ABC13Houston.
Graf explained in his GoFundMe, that he was contacted by Hijos y Madres del Silencio, a non-governmental organization that supports victims of illegal adoptions and child trafficking in Chile.
“That’s when they sat me down and told me who I was, how they know who I am, and what the true backstory really is,” Graf said about the surreal encounter.
Graf was stolen from his birth mother and she was told that he had died not too long after his birth.
This was a result of a coercive adoption, which ultimately takes away a mother’s right or ability to make a decision due to pressure, withholding information, or manipulation, according to Adoption Choices of Kansas.
Coercive adoptions took over in Chile under Dictator Augusto Pinochet’s reign during the ’70s and ’80s.