'Our girl': Woman abducted as a baby reunited with mother and father after 51 years

It was an emotional reunion for the Highsmith family as they had been searching for Melissa for decades."Mom and Dad met Mel for the first time yesterday, after 51 years and did further official and legal DNA testing.

"Athough in the moment we saw her pictures, found out about her birthmark, and realised her 'birthday' is so close to our Melissa, we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was our girl."Melissa Highsmith was abducted by a woman claiming to be a babysitter, while her mother was at work.She currently goes by the name Melanie but is seeking to change her name back to Melissa. 

Melissa was abducted after her recently-separated mother Alta placed an advertisement in the newspaper for a babysitter.Alta hired a woman who responded to the ad. She told authorities the woman picked up Melissa, who was in the care of her roommate, while she was at work.Melissa's brother Jeff said he was told the babysitter was wearing white gloves, sunglasses and a bonnet around her head in the middle of August.Continue reading

apiotrowski9 I don’t quite understand why no charges can be brought against this woman, who abducted a baby and continued to pose as her mother for 51 years?

apiotrowski9 Great ending to a tragic story

apiotrowski9 So touching!

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