Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped, and returned to his parents... decades later DNA testing proved he was a different childen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1379arrow-down12
arrow-up1377arrow-down1external-linkTIL Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped, and returned to his parents... decades later DNA testing proved he was a different childen.wikipedia.orgLady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 days agoThis was back in the era where ‘children should be seen and not heard’. So the kid and his opinions weren’t considered important, unfortunately.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoWhat’s the old trope where a dog or cat comes running to its true owner? They could have set something like that up with the kid. That or the Solomon treatment.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days agoWell nobody was seeing the kid because the two look nothing alike in that comparison photo from the newspapers.
This was back in the era where ‘children should be seen and not heard’. So the kid and his opinions weren’t considered important, unfortunately.
What’s the old trope where a dog or cat comes running to its true owner? They could have set something like that up with the kid. That or the Solomon treatment.
Well nobody was seeing the kid because the two look nothing alike in that comparison photo from the newspapers.