Disrupted or Failed Placements

Choi Yong Sul

Choi was born in Choong Chung province, Korea, then under Japanese occupation. A Japanese shopkeeper in his village, who had no sons, kidnapped Choi when he was about eight years old and to... [more]

Day, Sabrina Sidney (see Hannibal, Abram Petrovich)

Hannibal was born an African prince, but kidnapped as a young boy about 1692 and sent to Istanbul as a hostage. A year late he was sent as a present to Tsar Peter of Russia, who used him as... [more]

Fever went into care as a baby and spent almost his entire childhood in a succession of foster families and children's homes. Some were good but in others he was abused physically, emotional... [more]

Frampton, Phil

Frampton was the son of an unmarried teacher and a Nigerian engineer. At three months he was placed in a Barnardos Home, where he was undervalued, abused, and very unhappy. His mother harbo... [more]

Griffis, Joseph

Griffis was born to a white father, a famous scout, and a mother who was half Osage (there is some dispute about this, but Griffis apparently believed he was a Native American, always ident... [more]

Lopez, Charlotte Anne

Lopez was Miss Teen USA in 1993. She was placed in care by her mentally ill mother as a baby (with her brother and sister) and lived in foster homes in Vermont state for 15 years; by the... [more]

Martinson, Harry Edmund

Martinson was born in Jämshög in southern Sweden. His father died when he was six, and his mother abandoned her seven children to emigrate to America. The rest of his childhood was spent in... [more]

McCarthy, Mary Therese

McCarthy was born in Seattle and orphaned when she was six. She was raised by relatives who abused her, before being taken from them by sympathetic grandparents. She had an unhappy childhoo... [more]

Montezuma, Carlos

The Yavapai boy Wassaja was captured by the Pima people in an 1871 raid but very soon sold on to a white man, Carlos Gentilé, for $30.00. Gentilé named him Carlos Montezuma and adopted him,... [more]

Montu / Chons

There appear to be two versions of the story of Montu, or Chons. According to the "Theban Triad" Internet page cited below, Mut, the sky and mother goddess, and her consort, Am... [more]