It’s never too late to adopt a child you feel is truly yours, right? Twenty years after being taken away from his foster parents, 32-year-old Maurice Griffin has been officially adopted.
Abandoned as a baby, Griffin was adopted at age 3 by Lisa Godbold and her husband, Charles. However, by age 13, Griffin was taken away from them due to unidentified circumstances and placed back into the foster care system.
“It’s like being abducted from your family and being told to deal with it,” said Griffin. “It was torture; It broke our hearts,” added Godbold. “Not knowing where he was and not being able to have contact with him was like having a child abducted.”
Over the years, Godbold searched for Griffin until 2009 when she tracked him down via social media. This past Friday in San Diego, she adopted him as her son. He will join her and her two biological children, though the man he recognized as his father, Charles, passed away during their time apart.
“She’s my mother,” said Griffin. “She has always been my mother.”
Take a look at the video below:
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Read more about their reunion on the NBC 7 San Diego website.
BMWK — What do you think about an adult adoption?
Mai Bateson says
Very heart-warming story! Glad to know they are reunited after so many long years! God bless the family in their new path…
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