“The church came out of the track somewhere, and it became a cult based on fear, and I was forced to make a choice,” says 62-year-old Melanie Williams, who abandoned her child for adoption in January 1981.
At the age of 18, Melanie became pregnant after “crazy fell in love with the boy from school.
The couple was not only unmarried, but his father was not a member of the truth and refused to become one. This meant that Melanie committed a “terrible sin” in the eyes of local workers.
The workers and her family decided that she could continue to attend church meetings when she gives another family to the sect.
“When I save this baby, I will go to hell. If I will keep the baby, I can’t go home,” Melanie recalls, thinking.
She gave birth to a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma, where she was restrained in the room on her own.
She remembers how the doctor shouted when she started crying during childbirth.
Melanie’s baby was referred to as she made a sound and she said she didn’t know if her girl or boy had.
The new mother remained wondering if her baby died.
When she eventually learned that the baby lives, she said the nurse who hesitated whether the adoption should survive and wanted to hold the baby.
“You can never hold a baby,” the answer came.
Through the years, Melania managed to track her daughter – but she did not want to meet.
