According to Jehri he got into an argument with another man over sleeping pills, to which he was addicted, again at a motel. On the back of a small photo of Renee, in which she is wearing a pretty red dress, a message has been written to their grandparents. Joyce added: 'Raymond was a good person, but he had that street life. He did drugs, he drank and he fought. Patricia said: 'We were going to keep you, at least while Jehri was in the hospital.
We were so looking for that. Does she really not know where the kids were? Even at Friday's reunion the truth behind their kidnap, and the conflicting accounts of the adults involved remain hard to make sense of. Asked if she resents her mother for not doing more to find her, Pepper says: 'I see her story is a bit bizarre. He was reunited with his sisters last year after he was tracked down following the Dateline broadcast. Pepper now lives in Humboldt, north California, she is currently studying for a degree in Political, Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies and will graduate this year.
Renee lives in Corona, California, with her husband Cesar Vasquez. She has a year-old daughter called Cherrelle. She had another daughter Jessica who tragically passed away aged five. Despite the heartbreaking hand life has dealt them and the burning questions and doubts that still linger over what happened to them both, Pepper has come to be grateful for the smallest things in life that most take for granted 'like having food on the table and a home for our children.
I knew it was bad and knew it was wrong and I ran away as much as I could. We were put in terrible situations and places' - Pepper Smith 'She was a monster, she stole my kids, she told lies and she went to the grave with them. In one moment I thought I was losing my mind, I was ready to kill myself. I tried to kill myself two or three times'. Copyright All rights reserved Contact timnguoithatlac.
Home page. DNA Database Bank. Find Relatives. Find Martyr. Find Friends. I am looking for my mother, father, family or relatives. Nguyen Tien Hai - Ha Noi. Berthelot died of cancer in Christie, now 40 and living in South Lake Tahoe, spent her childhood on the run — starving, begging for food from strangers, waiting in the car at truck stops while Berthelot turned tricks for money, sleeping in toilet stalls with her feet up and head between her legs, growing up with no toys, no birthdays and no holidays.
Still, Christie knew she came from love. The faint memories carried her through the darkest hours of captivity. So she flew under the radar. Last year, she marched in a parade celebrating the safe return of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in at age 11 from a school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe.
Then she turned to her friends. Christie said she wanted to forget all about it — the hunger pangs, the belt beatings, the constant stream of racial slurs slung at her — but every time Christie buried it deep, she would have to retell her story when she went to fill out an application.
All she had was a birth date: Sept. Then two weeks ago, the phone rang. A clerk from the state Hall of Records deducted that Bobby was short for Barbara and located her birth certificate. It was instinct more than anything.
Christie saw her parents from the luggage claim. She never learned to read because she was barely in one place long enough to attend school. When she did, she was enrolled as 'Pepper Smith'. New family: Rhonda Christie pictured with her own daughter, Milan Apley, who is now Miss Christie told the Today programme: 'We were transient. We would leave in the middle of the night. But the authorities failed to help her, even though she realised she didn't belong with Berthenot.
She said: 'It was obvious. I was a withdrawn child. I didn't speak a lot of the time. I couldn't read and i wasn't up to par with school or anything. Her abductor refused to tell her anything about her past apart from her birth date, and that her parents were called 'Bobby and Bobby'. Berthenot died of cancer when Miss Christie was 16, but even on her death bed she wouldn't tell her anything to help her find her parents. Shared pain: Rhonda Christie's half-sister Renee was also brought up by Berthelot, being moved from motel to motel in the middle of the night.
More than 20 years later, she had given up all hope of ever being reunited with the family she yearned for, and asked a friend to adopt her so she should could finally get a passport. Her decision at last led her to her parents, when a clerk tracked down a birth certificate for a little girl born in San Diego on Pepper's birthday, whose name was Rhonda Christie. She said: 'It's pretty overwhelming, and this is all difficult, but it's very validating.
I feel like finally, I am validated for what was finally going on. Finally talking to my mom that first day, the first thing out of her mouth was "Shirley stole you". Miss Christie, who has a year-old daughter of her own and now lives in South Lake Tahoe, Calfornia, said she believes her mother is clinging to life for her. She said: 'In the end, Shirley did not win.
Me and my mom got reunited, just in time. Now 73, Jehri is vague about dates and the exact circumstances of the abduction. Asked when she realised the children had been taken, Jehri said she remembers leaving hospital and going to pick the children up from a motel as arranged.
And the next day I went out there and she was gone. The distraught mother went to the police but claims they didn't take her story seriously. Jehri, who walks with a zimmer frame, denies the allegations of prostitution and drug abuse. I tried to kill myself two or three times,' she said.
They were prejudiced. I never thought this day would ever happen and I prayed for this day. Family: Pepper's mother, Jehri, pictured with Donald Smith, the younger brother of the girls' father, Raymond, in the s.
The lawyer also found a police file that proves she did report her three children missing. However it remains baffling that she appears not to have tried harder to track them down. Jehri added: 'I thought she [Berthelot] was a friend of mine. I think that she had planned this. According to Jehri he got into an argument with another man over sleeping pills, to which he was addicted, again at a motel.
On the back of a small photo of Renee, in which she is wearing a pretty red dress, a message has been written to their grandparents. A loved child: The family of their father brought this picture of Renee, aged 13 months, and revealed that their paternal grandparents had offered to take them in just days before they vanished with Berthelot. Joyce added: 'Raymond was a good person, but he had that street life.
He did drugs, he drank and he fought. Patricia said: 'We were going to keep you, at least while Jehri was in the hospital. We were so looking for that. Does she really not know where the kids were? Whatever the truth, the forgiving sisters accepted Jehri back in their lives and in July she re-adopted Pepper as her daughter again. Even at Friday's reunion the truth behind their kidnap, and the conflicting accounts of the adults involved remain hard to make sense of. Asked if she resents her mother for not doing more to find her, Pepper says: 'I see her story is a bit bizarre.
Fight: Famed lawyer Gloria Allred, center, had taken up the battle to help Pepper and Renee track down their relatives after being moved by their plight. Pepper and Renee now plan to go to Michigan and meet all their cousins and hope to also introduce them to their brother Raymond.
He was reunited with his sisters last year after he was tracked down following the Dateline broadcast. Pepper now lives in Humboldt, north California, she is currently studying for a degree in Political, Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies and will graduate this year.
Renee lives in Corona, California, with her husband Cesar Vasquez. She has a year-old daughter called Cherrelle. She had another daughter Jessica who tragically passed away aged five. Despite the heartbreaking hand life has dealt them and the burning questions and doubts that still linger over what happened to them both, Pepper has come to be grateful for the smallest things in life that most take for granted 'like having food on the table and a home for our children.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Pepper Smith and her sister Renee were kidnapped when they were three and five by the family babysitter and prostitute Pepper was victim of sexual abuse and beatings as the sisters were forced to live destitute life flitting between dozens of motels across America The young girls witnessed drugs, a machete attacks and numerous murders In a final death bed betrayal, their kidnapper refused to reveal who their real mother was Another couple came forward to claim they adopted Pepper because her mother was a drug-addicted prostitute - but the girls claim they were in cahoots with their kidnapper and just wanted a baby Only after a TV program was aired did their real mother come forward and incredibly they forgive her for failing to save them Now they've been reunited with dead father's family for first time but doubts still linger over the truth of their past.
I knew it was bad and knew it was wrong and I ran away as much as I could.
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