My mum sold my siblings to the black market baby trade

[@marilynnjefferson8525]

From what I’ve seen here, this man is one of the most gracious of people.

[@sallycarlsson3710]

Thank you Mr.Bryntwick for telling your story with so much compassion. I truly admire your composure, courage and lack of bitterness of the checkered and deprived childhood that you experienced.

[@Tammie4561]

This is amazing. My mother sold my twin sisters when they were three years old. I never thought I'd hear of anything remotely like my familys story.

[@janedoe5229]

This is so very, very sad.

[@luns486]

I’m so sorry. Makes you wonder how often this happened. Or even if it happens today.

[@yourneighborhoodxenos]

​@@luns486 Unfortunately, yes, this kind of stuff and similar still happens

[@OceanFrontVilla3]

Well 400,000 "missing" migrant children were trafficked in the USA just in the last few years so..

[@KatelynBaker-yy2jx]

There’s actually a lot like this especially from back when it was legal to sell your kids ..

[@shelbykuenning2575]

So, shouldn't the adoption agency and/or the adoptive parents be charged with participating in human trafficking? That's what this is, after all.

[@geofo60]

They were sold in the black market, so it's doubtful any registered adoption agency was involved.

[@fijaystudio]

DNA showed so many siblings, one assumes they knew who their “adoptive” parents were. Certainly there should be human trafficking charges laid. The guy behind it lol is a monster.

[@margyeoman3564]

​@geofo60 Some sleeze of a lawyer no doubt

[@freddielind5282]

The adoptive parents probably didn't know

[@basicallyno1722]

This sort of thing happened during “the baby scoop era” -nothing has happened to the people who stole thousands of babies

[@phyllisnowosad2004]

Wow. The longer I live, now I’m 70, I learn that my childhood and family isn’t as strange or different as I thought. He certainly has great grace an courage anf strength of character. He is a true inspiration to me.

[@delhog6161]

This was happening in the UK in the 60’s back in 1962 when I was born my mother was offered £6,000 for me I was 2days older. The money and cover story was all there ready. My mother went nuts at the 2 men and the nurse. She got dressed and took me home when my dad came to pick her up. I wonder if my dad had something to do with it. He never did like me much.

[@susankaempfer8427]

How horrible for you! I suspect you may be right. 🙁

[@aelwynwitch9460]

Happened to Indigenous children in Canada. But the Indigenous parents did not want to have their child sold. They were stolen by the RCMP and sold to white couples.

[@Hatbox948]

This is still happening worldwide, even in the good old USA.

[@DRJ-ytp]

What an interesting man! So candid and realistic in circumstances that would make some people bitter, angry and devastated

[@susanne1756]

The mother didn't manage this relationship very well at all. She should have gotten MOST of the money. The father did VERY little to take care of this family. If she was just getting pregnant and selling kids, she could have done this on her own pretty easily. A year ago, at 73, I found out who my bio father was. Come to find out, this man, my father, had 4 kids, of which 2 had the same mother. Then I showed up through Ancestry. All a surprise to my half-sister. Now, we suspect that there could be more of us. I was a one night stand, he didn't know about me. He was married and his wife was pregnant when he met my mother. My half brother was born 6 months before me. Many men just can't keep their zipper up...😕 I think that it's CRIMINAL to keep adopted people from seeing their original birth records. I had to go to my state's Supreme Court and petition to open my birth record...what BS...!!

[@Minabobina007]

Over Covid , i discovered I have 13 siblings. Our dad had 14 kids in 9 yrs with 8 women. Last year, at 84 yrs old he was savagely murdered. Any hope for reconciliation and connection, so many questions. Gone.

[@nursemom101casteel7]

When I found my father's side of the family, my new brother told me about our father who was murdered in January of 2000 in North Carolina.

[@blazingstar9638]

That’s awful I am so sorry Were you unable to contact him in the 3 years before he was sadly murdered? 😢

[@AmyPieterse]

My parents are both incredibly dysfunctional people. I’ve only met my father three times and my mother is a white woman who was ill equipped to raise a brown child. By the time I was 13 She lost interest in parenting all together. She took me out of school when I was in the 7th grade. I went no contact and haven’t looked back. Stay strong and know that not all parents deserve their children ❤❤❤

[@pavlal.4552]

Wouldn't you be able to get a private Investigator? So sorry for your loss.

[@KatelynBaker-yy2jx]

I would put your dna on every single dna site ! My grandpa had 16-17 siblings out there he got to meet 6 but still 10 or 11 out there we haven’t got to meet , when there’s that many siblings out there some will have kids etc I’m sure yu could find at least some siblings on some dna stuff I’m sure there looking for yu to !

[@raeannaruby8306]

I never met my dad. I looked into him in my 20's and found out he died in prison when I was 10. He was decades older than my mom. Years before she was even born, 1959, he did 12 years for sa ing, then killing a 9 year old girl. It made the local papers. I have no idea if my mom knows. He went to prison for something else while mom was pregnant and died there. Thank God for small favors.

[@Hatbox948]

That's such a horrible story. I almost wish you'd never found that out. I wonder what your mom saw in the man, or perhaps she was his victim too. Hopefully life is better for you now. God bless you!

[@raeannaruby8306]

@Hatbox948 thank you! Yeah, the hardest part for me was finding out and keeping it from my mom, it took lots of therapy. She never said one bad word about him as far as I know, and I didn't want to confront her about it. She's a wonderful mom, and an even better grandma, I couldn't do that to her. But the info is out there on him and not hard to find. I kinda had to go it alone.

[@Hatbox948]

@@raeannaruby8306 My heart aches for you, but I'm so glad to know you have a wonderful mother and grandma. This just may be the cross you have to bear in life. Unfortunately we all get one it seems. I wish and hope the best for you. You're an amazing person despite it all.

[@RankinMsP]

​@@raeannaruby8306You're incredible ❤❤❤ Never change 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@bebeautiful6613]

This is the most bazar story I have heard. I have so many questions! How did she decide which babies to keep and which babies to sell? how come she didn’t get any money from selling the babies. Her poor heart and her poor body, delivering all those babies and giving them away. Getting nothing in return😢 didn’t her friends and family question where all those babies went.. what a fascinating man! He’s open and loving about his mother, compassionate and kind. Thank you so much for telling your story.! 🙂

[@LivingForJesusMennoniteMom]

I'm guessing that she kept the ones who weren't Mike's? But maybe she didn't know whose they were either. There are so many details that are unknown. But what a very very difficult story! It sounds like she was abused also and in a very difficult lifestyle of also wrong choices. And if Mike has 8 children with her, but she had 13 that would seem likely that the 4 he knew weren't Mike's children. But what kind of evil could have caused all this is beyond our comprehension. I pray they have found healing.

[@melaniew4354]

Bizarre. Not bazar.

[@bebeautiful6613]

@@melaniew4354 oh thanks, Word Police. Isn’t it funny how our accents get picked up when we’re talking into our phone? I’ve noticed this with a lot of people. I don’t think I’ve ever corrected anyone though. My spellcheck policeman is not as good as you 😱😆

[@bebeautiful6613]

@@LivingForJesusMennoniteMom I agree it is a very difficult story. I think you’re probably right on with your points . It’s amazing how he was able to tell it. He sounds like he has a kind and caring heart. Not naming his true father’s family,out of respect for them,is a kind thing to do. Many people would be angry and hateful and wouldn’t care how they feel.

[@flawedexistence]

​Accents have absolutely nothing with using correct spelling. And using spellcheck isn't difficult, if you need to.

[@sharonleis1365]

What an amazing gentle man for what he has been through.

[@violetgypsie]

My mother was approached to sell me when I was a baby. This happens more than people realize.

[@nonst8]

Neighbors wanted to adopt me when I was 2-3. I always wondered what motivated them to think that this was an ok subject to broach a neighbor. I don’t believe money was offered

[@ravinhairgirl88]

Mom used as a cash cow for this guy the father of all these kids. What gets me is why this woman allowed herself to be abused by this man

[@brendaelainewaddell1682]

She was probably abused by that creep. 😢

[@e.k.4508]

It can take years or a lifetime to reach the point to stand up to an abuser. This woman stood up eventually. I hope she got a better life from that moment. What makes me more wondering is how Bob did not get traumatized. Wonderful soul!

[@pamarabenton9039]

He probably lied about the amount of money.

[@MsKenzo7]

Saying that she allowed herself it’s victimising her again. Please think the times this happened. Women had no much control over their life’s. Men ruled the homes and life for a woman was very different then.

[@janaslechtova5504]

What a horrific character, this Mike guy.

[@tzarinaruths.2610]

How sad...some people do need to NOT be able to have any more babies! They hid the birth of how many babies? This shows how sick the baby trade was & still is. My opinion.

[@geofo60]

What an amazing story Bob, thanks for sharing and Happy Christmas to you and your extended family. There must be literally thousands of people across the World who have family members and don't know who or where they are. Not that your circumstances are connected but it reminds me of the tragic stories in relation to the Magdeline Laundries in Ireland.

[@kathleenmckenzie9500]

Great interview the guy had alot to say. So factual good bloke

[@maureenmckenna5220]

His mom gave up her children to be sold to an adoption agency over and over again? And the father of these babies made about $10,000 on each one of them? And, the mom made nothing? Twins fetched $20,000? As inhuman as it is to sell your children, the fact that she allowed the father to pocket the money is crazy too. And, what adoption agency bought these children? What insanity.

[@bec5250]

Yes indeed. And the fact that this family lived in a city surrounded by people who never intervened says the rest. Over time I've come to lose any idealism I felt about humanity. There are genuinely good people out there still, but the balance between people who will stand by a crime scene and film it, as opposed to those who will rush in and help, is sickeningly disproportionate.

[@pollywaffledoodah3057]

His mother may have been on the autistic spectrum - research has shown that autistic women are very easily sexually exploited by sociopathic men. Sadly, these naive and trusting women have no clue that they are being used and abused, and just expect to be treated this shabbily, as they have very low self-esteem. They take no control over their reproductive health, and also take no control over their life in general, leaving it all up to the men who dominate them to make all their decisions for them. It always end badly for the women and children - and the kids are the innocent bystanders to these domestic horror stories.

[@backtoasimplelife]

Yeah, it doesn't add up. Why would the father be getting all the money? Idk what kind of person would get pregnant to sell their own child. Plus she knew he was married and had another family. This man is far more compassionate than I could be.

[@MsKenzo7]

We need to understand that women then had no much control over their decisions or power over the men they were married or men in society in general. Things are a bit different today.

[@maureenmckenna5220]

@ You are absolutely correct, but she wasn’t married to him, and knew he had a wife and another family. This guy looks to be no more than 60, could be younger. That’s about 1965 or so, not the dark ages. This might make some sense if she also pocketed the money, but her son claims they were always living poorly. Sounds like she was in agreement with him and this wasn’t forced on her. And, so it makes no sense. Women just don’t sell their babies one after the other. Wonder what the real story is.

[@jocosus3]

Bless Mr. Bryntwick. I wonder if he would ever consider writing an autobiography. Fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time. #MindBlown

[@margaretcampbell4828]

Wow ,this story is absolutely fascinating, its could be made into a movie..

[@MoralScienceEducation]

Fascinating story - thanks for sharing!🙏

[@KellyTour-d9s]

I really hope the kids went to homes of good people but chances are some went to the worst ends being bought by peds.

[@Bungle-UK]

Ended up at the BBC.

[@bwenluck9812]

​@@Bungle-UK Get help!

[@michelleduncan9965]

That was my thought Kelly. Some of the kida were probaby sold to very evil people.

[@thedemonnemo]

​@@bwenluck9812from who? Jimmy Saville?

[@TRIChuckles]

We All have a story. Some are Hard. Others are not. Some are less so. But we all do have a story. So on that level I enjoyed hearing this story from you. And you seem to have had a good life. I'm glad for that.

[@cherylmockotr]

Yes, fascinating... and so tragic as well! What about Sharon's twin? Does anyone know if she was ever found? At the end he said they've most likely found all the siblings but he didn't mention her specifically.

[@sandymiller870]

It makes you wonder about his mother who gave away all those babies. Surely at some point she must said to herself, my kids have nothing and here comes the guy with the Cadillac again. The twins brought in $20,000! Pitiful.

[@rebeccabriggs2982]

This is one of the craziest dna ancestry stories I've heard. Talk about Skeletons in the Cupboard!

[@pamelamays4186]

Back in the fifties the average yearly income was about 3,000 dollars.

[@azedel7151]

@ That’s for the US, not Canada.

[@mrsnegrich]

Thank you Bob Bryntwick and Times Radio for sharing this on YT. Very fascinating story that seems to have fulfilled Mr. B`s yearning, not sure if it`s the right word but so good to have discovered some truth, some family and some great connections. Bravo. Enjoy your happy moments and continue to appreciate your dear mom who taught you well. It looks like you were very well loved by her. It was the reason you were there. She was happy to have you with her. I wouldn`t wanna judge her for her life decisions. Maybe she did what she could do best to keep the ones she had with her safe and healthy.

[@quanitamarchesi9171]

😢poor man, poor sad siblings😢heartbreaking story.

[@MsK-xm7vw]

My kids High School did the 23 and me DNA tests as part of their social studies class. I opted my children out! I divorced their father after finding out he was sleeping with women all over town, and was afraid of what the tests might reveal. As my ex apparently liked married women who wouldn’t complicate his life, I was worried that there could be a very real chance that they might have a sibling no one knew about in their own school! These tests can open a can of worms that destroys lives. Think twice before embarking on a journey you may regret!

[@mintybadger6905]

See, I’d want to make sure my kids knew who their siblings are before you get a Greek tragedy on your hands.

[@h.m.6122]

That’s pretty selfish. Your kids deserve to meet their siblings if they want to . They’ll just do it when they’re an adult anyway 😅

[@michelleduncan9965]

Well said msk.

[@rosemarymegan]

​@@h.m.6122 Let them wait and find out when they are grown up and be able to cope with it. The mother was not at fault and protected them.

[@1212aoa]

Very sad and interesting story.

[@sparkle6093]

My goodness his mother was a monster.

[@VeronicaPalozzi]

Every child from birth has the right to know who his/ her bio parents are! Mothers keeping this information should feel great shame for withholding! This weighs heavy not knowing!! It affects how one trusts the world around them…

[@normakeeley5084]

Thank you for sharing.😊

[@eh1702]

It’s striking that he talks about “my siblings” as distinct from “his kids”, although they are all his offspring. I guess he assumed half sibling would know him.

[@katella]

Once I had to find homes for 8 puppies that were abandoned at birth which I then bottle raised. It was heart wrenching to have to give them away. This situation is so bizarre.

[@saad-t7k]

this is horrible. imagine you meet someone, fell in love with them, and you are siblings, and you do not know it.

[@animallover4955]

After joining ancestry I discovered my maternal grandmother had 8 kids to 5 different men. Basically she never kept any of them. Not sold but left.❤ I found my 2 1st cousins & a half uncle. I already knew a girl cousin that turned out to be my father’s daughter. There is another male child I’m expecting to find is my fathers also.

[@e.k.4508]

That's another crazy story! But I don't get the part of the female cousin who turned out to be your father's daughter. So your cousin is your (half)sister? And you have a suspected half brother? So your father went into the footsteps of your grandmother and had children with several women within the family?

[@animallover4955]

@ yes correct however, he stayed with the woman who had the girl child & later I discovered in my teens that she had given away 4 children - 1 adopted, 1 sold to a single woman, 1 from her marriage given to her cousin as well as the girl child I believed to be my cousin but has proven to be my half sister. Then that woman & my father had a son which they kept. While all this was going on I was taken from my mother by my father & placed in a home from aged 4 - 9 years. I returned to my father & it got worse from there. Shame & scandal in the family.

[@e.k.4508]

@@animallover4955 What a mess! I'm so sorry for you and your siblings you had to go through all of that. How are you doing now?

[@misodinamosa]

Horrifying. God bless you!😞❤️🙏🏻

[@naheedsultana9358]

I am just thinking about the other twin !

[@Marsase]

Does anybody even realize how dangerous it is to give birth without a knowledgeable specialist?!?

[@TwisterTornado]

How do you think it was done, for thousands of years? Midwifery. When medical doctors took over from midwifery, they were NOT less dangerous, because the doctors also handled corpses and they did not understand germ theory, yet. The campaign against midwifery was PART OF the so-called "witch burnings". But it is the NATURAL WAY of most societies. Helping women to give birth is a Grandmother's role. This is what they used to do. To fix society, we need to train more post-menopausal women to be either OBGYN's, or midwives.

[@TwisterTornado]

However, I do see the problem of unlicensed birth assistants, in this case... Licensing and training still matter. I am not advocating for a return to an uneducated past.

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

Why would the mother comply with this man?

[@chrisnatmills7802]

who were the people who bought these babies?

[@melaniemansfield3319]

Epstein types. 🤫they not have survived.

[@aussiehillbilly]

Satanists and the infertile

[@brendamoon2660]

Clients of adoption lawyers who thought they were paying the cost of an above board adoption

[@jo-annewilkinson5663]

An amazing story 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤

[@simoansays4820]

Humans are disappointing.

[@chipcook5346]

Why do so many commentors seem to assume that having a sad, difficult childhood is an excuse for poor attitude and behavior as an adult and are surprised that this guy is so even keeled and appears to have done well?

[@chipcook5346]

So English, this "is there any support, any help" garbage. Again, the assumptions that people are not strong and just can't handle life. Thankfully, the Canadian guy said "it's totally not their problem." Sad what has happened to England.

[@gailcarey3597]

God sees all. God judges all.

[@raeannaruby8306]

This is fascinating

[@bikinggal1]

The good part of this story is that these children were given to families who wanted a child rather than the sex trafficking industry!

[@michelleduncan9965]

We DON'T KNOW THAT ABOUT ALL OF THEM ... THE TWIN WAS NEVER FOUND.

[@eckosters]

What an amazing story and Mr Bryntwick is so gracious about his history! How admirable. What I totally don’t understand is why his mother continued to welcome this guy in her bed for so many years when clearly she meant nothing to him. People are strange…

[@suzyq6767]

My dad had a daughter before meeting my mom who grew up with her mom but knew nothing about being adopted by her “dad.” She looked him/us up after learning about him in adulthood. We accepted her with open arms, but because some of us didn’t match her fantasies, she rejected Dad and my brother but not me. Well…long story short, I decided that I don’t think adoptees meeting the birth family is a good idea.

[@Interglacial_optimist]

Wouldn't it be funny if everybody found out they're related to queen victoria

[@kerstiZweidorffDokken]

Now, that would be really fascinating!

[@bwenluck9812]

@Interglacial No....

[@patriciapitt4228]

We do have a man who says that he is the love 😍 child of King Charles and the Queen 👑 it's been on ut ,I'm related to Sir William Pitt, that will do me 😊 *

[@PATH918]

So Sad story...😢💔

[@zinnia3684]

People weren’t so filled with emotion about everything. Questions weren’t asked and we just got on with it.

[@GloriaHoulihan]

What a strange story.

[@georgiakritikos4955]

SPILL THE BEANS 🫘

[@rhondahammonds8699]

My husband’s Mama sold him and his siblings on the BALTIMORE MD black market through ads in the Baltimore Sun.

[@Valentine3e]

God Bless You Sir 🩷🙏🏽🩷✨

[@KatelynBaker-yy2jx]

My grandpa and his siblings were full full blooded native they came from a poor family so all like 16 siblings got sold 😭 and no I haven’t got to meet any of them my grandpa did get to meet 6 of them tho before he passed and now he has passed along with 2 or 3 other siblings I say 2-3 because there was only one of his siblings names I could remember and that was ace I took ancestry to see what I can find so we will see lol

[@maryburland2829]

Wow is an unusal situation

[@barbaraayarza5352]

What he described sounded more like open private adoption...

[@yeerrr2726]

These type sure like selling people, must be a culture thing

[@ArubaRedOfficial]

it’s happening all over the world from Nigeria to Thailand to the US, poverty and abuse of women’s bodies is a terrible thing 😔

[@crr6750]

That man looks an awful lot like Jerry Springer.

[@PatriciaPKHeffernan]

Interesting!

[@Nancy-nn2tc]

I would like know more about this black market for babies in Quebec. Life was hard in Quebec back then. The government was a Catholic dictatorship at the time with extreme ideas, so no birth control allowed. Who was buying these babies for such extraordinary sums, when the province was awash in babies?

[@kelllefae3026]

I think someone in my family did this in post ww2 era ... i found 4 n united them with rest of fam . Pretty sure theres more but due to fake names no records etc, unless they dna test we will never find them ..

[@Bungle-UK]

Coming to a table in a foreign restaurant near you.

[@bwenluck9812]

@Bungle What are you talking about??? 🤔

[@alynneflanery9918]

so im assuming they found the other twin then??

[@margyeoman3564]

Good heavens..Weep!

[@messianic_scam]

😢

[@MsK-xm7vw]

I think it’s a Canadian thing!!!

[@Aquila-1234]

God's children are not for sale.

[@shaunlowndes]

Why were they black?Was your dad black or your mum?

[@sandi8596]

It is called "Black market".

[@MsArtistwannabe]

I don’t think they were black. But, sold on the black market.

[@Mithras444]

Google what Black market is, it's not race related but an illegal transaction.

[@helgardhossain9038]

"The black market" = illegal market

[@Pammellam]

They were NOT black. They sold secretly … not on official channels ie they were sold, *sold* on the _black market_ . He said they were _sold_ to an _adoption agency_ who then _sold_ them to other people.

[@GloriaHoulihan]

Did he say Trump family? Or did I mishear?

[@ikusark]

1st

[@PlanetOfTheAztecs]

Im perdy sure it's called the white market .

[@ravinhairgirl88]

Black market means is a slang term for selling goods illegally. These kids were sold for a profit and everything about their adoptions did not go through proper channels.

[@yeerrr2726]

@@ravinhairgirl88the comment went over your head

[@Hana.Abdullah-u3s]

انا اختك في الله والله ما كتبت هذا الكلام الا من الضيق وقسوت الضروف اني طالبه من الله ثم منك لاتردني خايبه يا اخي احنا نساء ما نقدر نخرج نشتغل مثل الرجال ربي اكرمكم انكم رجال احنا نساء ما بنقدر نخرج ولا نشتغل مثلكم اخي وين الانسانيه اين الاخوه الايمانيه في قلوبكم''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اقسم بالله على كتاب الله يا خوان ما فيه دخل علينا ولا من ايا شخص ربي يجزيك الخير يا فاعل الخير انا داخله على الله ثم عليكم يااهل الخير تقفوا معنا يا عالم حسوا فينا يا اهل الخير وين النخوة وين الاخوة وين الرحمه الى اوصى عليه النبي محمد بجاه النبي محمد تحسوا فينا انا بطلب منكم لو تساعدونى لو بثمن اكل مش طالبه شي غير انه نسد جوعنا ارجوكم من غير تجريح وكلام بكسر الخاطر انا يا خوان العيشة والله ما . عيشة فيكم تتاكدو يا اهل الخير انا توسل لكم ابوس على ايدكم تساعدونى ارجوكم امانه عليكم انا اعتبرونى اختكم عرضكم ساعدونى والله لول الضيق والفقر ما مديت ايدي اشحد من الناس استرونى يستر عرضكم وربنا يفرحكم في اطفالكم واهلكم ويبعد عنكم الضيق والحزن وربنا يجعل هذا المساعده في ميزان حسناتكم ساعدونى لو بثمن الاكل او بثمن اجار البيت ارجوكم يا اخواني يا اصحاب الضمير الحي يا اهل الخنوة واهل الكرم ارجوكم ساعدوني لو بشي قليل امانه عليكم والي حاب يساهم معي ربي يجزيه كل خير هذا رقمي00967713342392 الوتساب اللي يستطيع يساعدنا يتوصل نمرتنا واتساب معنا نعطيه الاسم الكامل العنوان ويحول لنا بما يستطيع وانا وسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعدتنا لاتتاخر علينا و جزاك الله خير الجزا~π~÷~ππ~π~π|ππ~π~π~π~π~ππ~√ππ~π~π√√

[@evangelinebelami8716]

😢