A Northern Virginia man who was stolen at birth from his biological mother in Chile is going to be reunited with her soon.
Sean Ours and his sister were adopted by a family in the United States and grew up here. Their adoptive family was told their mom gave them up for adoption because she couldn’t afford to raise them.
But last year, the story they’d been told their whole lives began to unravel. After hearing about fraudulent adoptions, their adoptive mom started working with a group called Connecting Roots, a nonprofit that has been linking children illegally taken from Chilean moms. Ours and his sister learned their biological mom was told her son and daughter died during childbirth.
“It was very shocking realizing that we might have been sold, so to speak, against her will,” Ours said.
Through Connecting Roots and the group MyHeritage, they were able to get …