Marisa Bocanegra is someone with an exceptional background. She was born on June 13, 1977 in Bogota, Colombia. Unknown to her at the time, she was kidnapped at an extremely young age of four hours old and sold to an adoption agency under a fake name. She would grow up in Minnesota, unaware of her background, to go on and search for her real family. She would find out that she was a victim of child trafficking and would eventually be reunited with her family. Marisa has five children along with her fiancée and is a proud Deaf woman who serves the Deaf community. Even with constant tears and dead ends, she overcame some of life’s biggest hardships, which included a kidnapping and eventual reunion, and persevered with the help of the people around
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They first gave her a paper to sign away her parental rights. It was common practice for unwed mothers in Colombia to give up their babies for adoption, but Marisa’s mother declined with the full intention to keep her child. The hospital then drugged her mother and tricked her into signing a blank page, which was used to abduct Marisa. They falsified records so it showed that her mother was there for flu-like symptoms, rather than childbirth. She was only four hours old when she was kidnapped. The notary that signed the false document was caught and was responsible for over eight hundred kidnapped children that was sold to adoption agencies. He was not charged for the crimes due to the statute of limitation.
Marisa always felt out of place, like she didn’t belong, with her former family. The family adopted her, not knowing that she was kidnapped beforehand. She would inevitably move out at the age of sixteen due to rising tensions between them. She stated that “there was a lot of favoritism” with the family, considering that they had a biological daughter shortly after they adopted her. She clarified that it wasn’t that she didn’t feel loved by them but “it was a different kind of love.” She would move in with her friend until she graduated high school early with PSEO
They first gave her a paper to sign away her parental rights. It was common practice for unwed mothers in Colombia to give up their babies for adoption, but Marisa’s mother declined with the full intention to keep her child. The hospital then drugged her mother and tricked her into signing a blank page, which was used to abduct Marisa. They falsified records so it showed that her mother was there for flu-like symptoms, rather than childbirth. She was only four hours old when she was kidnapped. The notary that signed the false document was caught and was responsible for over eight hundred kidnapped children that was sold to adoption agencies. He was not charged for the crimes due to the statute of limitation.
Marisa always felt out of place, like she didn’t belong, with her former family. The family adopted her, not knowing that she was kidnapped beforehand. She would inevitably move out at the age of sixteen due to rising tensions between them. She stated that “there was a lot of favoritism” with the family, considering that they had a biological daughter shortly after they adopted her. She clarified that it wasn’t that she didn’t feel loved by them but “it was a different kind of love.” She would move in with her friend until she graduated high school early with PSEO