Philadelphia man closes missing child case after finding himself on website

[billym]

Philadelphia man closes missing child case after finding himself on website | Fox News

A Philadelphia man brought an end to a missing child case – previously unsolved for 34 years – after browsing the Internet and finding that the person who disappeared was himself.
Steven Carter, 35, was searching MissingKids.com in 2010 when he stumbled upon an age-progression image of Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes that looked like him, ABC News reports.
“You look at the picture and it’s almost so similar you don’t know what to do,” Carter, a software salesman, told Fox News.
Steven then contacted his adoptive mother, Victoria, and sent her the baby image of Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes on the website.
Victoria Carter told ABC News that Barnes looked similar to photos they took of Steven when he was a baby. Victoria Carter claimed she adopted Steven at the age of 4 from a orphanage in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Steven was confirmed to be the baby in the photo after he provided police with information and completed a DNA match.
But Steven still faced a mystery in retracing his disappearance.
“I knew I was adopted; the only question was: How did I end up in the orphanage?” he told Fox News.
According to Victoria, Steven was placed in an orphanage because his biological mother, Charlotte Moriarty -- whose whereabouts are currently unknown -- had a tendency to disappear with 1-year-old baby Steven for weeks at a time. Cops eventually found the mom and took Steven away, but she provided authorities with a false name and birth information for him, making the police unable to track down his father, ABC News reports.
After solving the case, Steven was able to reach his biological father, Mark Barnes, who lives in California, and his half-sister Jenny.
“They’ve been amazing. Very supportive,”


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[billym]

This was a good story and glad he found out about his family

I guess something similar to this story has happened to us on the forum, while I am sure most of us here have or had wonderful parents who loved us a lot and then one day we find out we have a Hevenly Father who loves so much he sent His son Jesus to die for us so we could become His by His Grace. How Blessed am I to have had a great mom and dad on earth and then find out about my Hevenly Father and be born again into the family of God and be able to come here and visit with all my brothers and sisters in Christ. May God's Blessing be upon all my brothers and sisters here today.

[livin_in_the_Son]

How much better is it for all those who had crappy families? An abusive father, and alcoholic mother....or simply parents who cared more for their own earthly pleasures than their own children? For all those children who were abandoned, abused, forgotten, hungry, unloved.....your heavenly Father loves you. He never left, never forgot, He's still there waiting with an everlasting love for you. Don't wait....accept Jesus' gift...it is literallly the only free, no-strings-attached gift you will ever receive in this life. Get on your knees right now and pray. Your Father is waiting......