Does anyone remember these lost loves story?

[JenniferS.]

First one is about a woman who had to drop out of school as a teen and raise her younger siblings after her mom moved in with some guy. The mom didnt want the guy to know she had kids. When the house burned down the kids lived in they showed up on her door step. She didnt want hem so they ended up in foster care. Except the older one who got married and had a baby of her own. She tried to get custody of the her two younger siblings who she found living in squaller But it didnt work out. This older daughter had red hair. I belive the case was solved but I can't remember the names?


Second one is about a woman that when she was 6 years old she took care of to younger siblings becasue her parents were not around. making chocolate milk and toast for them to eat. They ended up in foster care. The older girl ran away and took bus to the city were a priest drove her around helping her look for a house she remembered a relative lived at. They didnt find it so he dropped her off at the police station and she ended up back in foster care. I can't remember if she was looking for siblings , parents or the relative with the house she remembered? don't remember if ithe story was so0lved either.

anyone remember these stories?

[McBevis]

Originally Posted by JenniferS.

First one is about a woman who had to drop out of school as a teen and raise her younger siblings after her mom moved in with some guy. The mom didnt want the guy to know she had kids. When the house burned down the kids lived in they showed up on her door step. She didnt want hem so they ended up in foster care. Except the older one who got married and had a baby of her own. She tried to get custody of the her two younger siblings who she found living in squaller But it didnt work out. This older daughter had red hair. I belive the case was solved but I can't remember the names?


Second one is about a woman that when she was 6 years old she took care of to younger siblings becasue her parents were not around. making chocolate milk and toast for them to eat. They ended up in foster care. The older girl ran away and took bus to the city were a priest drove her around helping her look for a house she remembered a relative lived at. They didnt find it so he dropped her off at the police station and she ended up back in foster care. I can't remember if she was looking for siblings , parents or the relative with the house she remembered? don't remember if ithe story was so0lved either.

anyone remember these stories?

The first case is that of Brenda Merrill Miller. Her mom did indeed abandon her and her 5 siblings (one of whom was deaf). By the time the segment was first shown, Brenda had managed to reunite with 3 of them, and they were interviewed briefly during the segment. In the fall of '92, when the segment was shown, viewer calls led to Brenda's reunion with her brother Keith just before Christmas in '92, which UM filmed. Sometime not long after in early '93, her one still-missing brother Eric was finally located. A picture of him as an adult was shown on screen, but a live reunion was not filmed. At the time of the segment, it was noted that the siblings' mother was 78 years old and in declining health, and that Brenda, who had not completely forgiven her mother up to that point, hoped that bringing the whole family back together again would finally set things right between them.

The second case is that of Aleatha Smith Evertz. She and her 3 siblings, Richard, Marty and Noreen, were often left at home to fend for themselves. After child welfare advocates got wind of the situation, Aleatha was separated from her siblings and placed in the care of foster parents named Frank and Mary Anne Wiley. Though she was apparently treated well by them (Mary Anne was interviewed in the segment and spoke glowingly of Aleatha), Aleatha still felt like the world was collapsing around her and eventually ran away from the Wiley home to begin her lonely journey. After the segment aired, someone watching did manage to get Aleatha reunited with her siblings, however because she felt such horrible emotional pain from her childhood, Aleatha specifically asked UM not to film the reunion.