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Sep 05, 2016 News
By: Romila Boodram
A desperate father is hoping to be reunited with his baby girl 31 years after she was stolen from a hospital’s nursery.
The newborn was taken two days after her birth to Allan Frank and Yvonne Patricia Frank.
The baby’s mother died while delivering her at the hospital and it was while Mr. Frank was preparing to bury his wife, that hospital officials informed him by phone that his daughter had been stolen.
Determined to find his missing child, Frank took the state to court in 1985, the same year his child was abducted.
He lost the case.
However, this did not shatter his hope of being reunited with his baby girl.
It was two weeks ago, Frank, who has three other children, received a call from a relative who had seen an article with a young woman, who was questioning her birth.
The woman identified herself as Shellon Samson and was quoted as saying, “You see, I am starting to think that my mother faked her pregnancy and she kidnapped someone else’s baby.”
Samson looks a lot like Frank’s eldest daughter and she even looks a little like him, too.
Could this be Frank’s long lost daughter?
“I don’t know if she is but I will do DNA. I have to find my child,” Frank said.
Recalling the moment he received the news that someone had stolen his daughter, Frank said that after learning about his wife’s death, he was devastated.
“I went to the hospital to see my wife and heard that she died and then they took me to see the baby. She was in the nursery. I was so terrified at my wife’s death and then a nurse came to me and told me to go and take care of my wife’s funeral and they will take care of the baby,” the man recalled.
He stressed that two days later, he received a call from a rank at Alberttown Police Station, who informed him that his child had been stolen from the hospital’s nursery.
Frank said that together with the ranks, they looked everywhere but were unable to find the baby.
Thirty one years later, Samson’s story emerged and refreshed Frank’s memory of his long lost child.
In July last, the young woman visited this newspaper and pleaded with anyone who might have had a child stolen between the years 1980- 1990 to come forward as she believes that her real parents are out there.
The woman believes that she was stolen from someone by the woman, who claims to be her mother.
Samson, a mother of one has no document to prove her existence. She doesn’t even know her age and has no birth certificate.
Samson said that the woman who claims to be her biological mother is providing conflicting information about her birth and would usually become hostile whenever she tries to query about her other relatives and her actual age.
Samson was told that she was delivered on March 18, 1995, at the same hospital from which the baby girl was stolen, but when she visited the hospital, they had no record of her birth. In fact, there was no female delivered on that day. She also believes that she is older than the 21 her mother claims she is.
“During my school days, when the teachers ask for my birth certificate, my mother would take me out of that school and send me to another one and this continued until she took me out from school permanently,” Samson recounted.
She said that after learning that there was no record of her birth, she confronted her mother and was then told that a nurse, who delivered her, destroyed the paper that her birth was registered on.
“She said the nurse was paid to tear the page with my information, and that’s how the hospital doesn’t have any document of my birth,” Samson said while adding that she is not in touch with any relative who could give her information.
When this newspaper called Samson’s mother, the woman said that when she delivered her child, she had an evil mother-in-law, whom she believes paid the nurses to remove her daughter’s information from the hospital’s record.
Shellon Samson is being asked to visit this newspaper’s Saffon Street, Charlestown office as soon as possible.
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