This Is The Astonishing Story Of How This Couple Came Upon Their Adopted Child’s Past

this is the astonishing story of how this couple came upon their adopted child's past [Music] but before we start please make sure to subscribe to m r tv and hit the bell so you never miss any upload from us also leave a like right now just like striving to conceive a child of your own adopting a child comes with its fair share of tremendous concerns expectations and surprises this was unquestionably the case for canadian couple ron and natalie trek roche who in 1997 concluded they wanted to bring a child into their home their search led them to arad romania where they met and were enamored with the one-year-old girl named radhika lavinia farkas radhika had some health issues which sent ron and natalie on a journey to find answers about her past and that's when they made a shocking discovery many couples dream of starting their own families but it's not always an effortless thing to do ron and natalie truck roche of canada knew this better than anyone else despite some difficulties they knew they wanted to raise a child on their own what may come in 1997 the couple hoping to find the perfect fit for their little family traveled to arad romania a city located on the meers river in the western part of the country that's where they first encountered radical lavinia farkas who was only one yet she already had an enigmatic past ron and natalie immediately recognized that radica with her wide infectious smile would be the perfect addition to family of two regrettably this wasn't going to be an uncomplicated adoption before they could even get started the couple received some distressing news ron and natalie immediately recognized that radica with her wide infectious smile would be the perfect addition to their family of two regrettably this wasn't going to be an uncomplicated adoption before they could even get started the couple received some distressing news although she was just a tiny toddler at the age of one radica was critically malnourished she suffered from rascitis and had weak bones from a lack of vitamin d it was rather evident that she was in need of some immediate help but the sad reality was cases like radicals weren't uncommon in romania in the 1990s the country was under the command of the infamous dictator named nikolai sosuzu who outlawed contraception of any kind throughout the entire country with catastrophic consequences with the overflowing abundance of the poor in the country at the time it meant that a lot of couples conceived children they couldn't afford and they were forced to give them up the lucky ones ended up in orphanages the less fortunate ones died from starvation or were abandoned was this development in the country that led to erotica being dropped off in the orphanage in the first place perhaps her mother couldn't provide the care necessary to properly care for her newborn child questions dominated this innocent toddler's past and natalie and ron craved answers ron and natalie desired to know everything they could possibly know about their new daughter's unfortunate past the problem was that it was also particularly hard to get a hold of any documents of any sort on orphans in romania at the time and so the investigation began natalie and ron grasped onto every bit of data they could find on radica but without the ease of internet like today there wasn't much to be found then the couple happened upon rodica's family tree and they found that the girl's biological mother had actually given away more than one child actually somewhere out there erotica actually had an older sibling and a sister no less curiously enough though this sister had been sent to an entirely different orphanage from then on ron and natalie knew they had to find the other child too as the saying goes the more the merrier and natalie and ron must have been firm believers of that from the moment they acquired the knowledge about radica's sister they were resolved to find and adopt her too thorough research led ron and natalie finally down to erotica's older sister giannina they were shocked at the likeness between the sisters they could have passed off as twins without a moment's hesitation the couple adopted her too making the trek crochets officially a family of four happily back home in canada with two new baby girls ron and natalie made yet another unexpected discovery about the young girls family tree they had six other siblings but obviously they wouldn't plan to adopt them too right ron and natalie drained their means while trying to find those six other siblings but without the help of a paper trail from romania it was hopeless those siblings still remained a mystery to this day but maybe that was better for the pair eight kids would have been a bit much even though they could not track down the rest of the siblings ron and natalie were still happy to complete their dream they were christened with new names too giannina became sophie and radica was now danielle but something didn't feel right about the change though taking two little girls from their home country and then erasing all signs of their heritage and culture was not what ron and natalie intended to mark the girl's history and heritage they turned sophie and danielle's birth names into the girls new middle names sophie and danielle's story often attracted a lot of intrigue how often do you hear about a pair of hopeful parents traveling halfway around the world to adopt a pair of sisters separated since birth in fact one documentary filmmaker who came to know of their story decided to make a film about it though it's been lost to time since years later as an adult when sophie watched the film she decided to make a shorter version to share on the internet she edited the full film into its shorter counterpart which she uploaded to youtube though it has since been taken down where it reached a huge amount of views the edited video success inspired sophie a lot so much so that she actually chose to pursue photography when the time for her to enroll at a university came around she knew exactly what she wanted to declare as her major the documentary also inspired sophie to find out more about her and her sister's past she planned to take a trip to romania and though she would have hoped to find her birth mother she didn't rely on it finding proper documents was still scarce even after all these years as for danielle she plans to join her sister on her journey to romania sometime in 2018 in the meantime she intends to study for her bachelor's degree and if that wasn't enough she still lives in the close vicinity of her sibling when ron and natalie had flown to romania hoping to adopt a child they didn't know that they'd be coming home with another one but it was for sure that they wanted a family and they went to great lengths to make that possible it was a good thing that ron and natalie had the strong constitution to withstand all the trials and afflictions that came when starting a family of their own especially so because they had to go through the process of adoption of their two adorable girls but they were surely happy that they did [Music] [Music] you