Kentucky woman reunited with son kidnapped by babysitter 55 years ago
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An elderly Kentucky woman shed tears of joy after her son returned home 55 years after a babysitter ran off with him.
The emotional reunion between Anna-Mary Barnett and Jerry Barnett took place Friday in Radcliff, Ky., WLKY-TV reported.
“Oh my goodness, you talk about excited. Oh Lord!” she said, according to the station.
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Her son was 5 years old in 1965 when a babysitter she didn’t know well disappeared with the boy. Barnett was a teenage mom at the time.
A few years later, he wound up in foster care in Delaware, abandoned by the babysitter who had moved there, the station reported. His last name in Delaware was Thomas.
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The reunion came about after his son, Damon Parker, took a DNA test for a website and discovered he had a cousin — and a grandmother –in Kentucky, according to the station.
“I was scared to get out the car,» Jerry Barnett said. «There was a mob (of people). I thought somebody was going to kidnap me again.”
Anna-Mary Barnett and members of her family said they asked agencies for help finding her son to no avail, WLKY reported.
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“I was so scared. I mean, it was during the (civil rights) movement,” she told the station.
