A father and son have been telling their story of how the boy, aged 11, was abandoned at a hospital by his foster parents and then adopted by Peter Mutabazi, a single man who adopted children based on his own experience growing up in an abusive household in Africa.
Tony Mutabazi never knew who his biological parents were, and he was left in a foster home since he was 2-years-old. At age 2, he was adopted by a foster family from Oklahoma, but when he turned 11, he was left at a hospital, and the foster parents never returned.
It was then that a woman at the hospital, Jessica, phoned Peter, a single man known to foster children in difficult situations. He agreed to take Tony for 2 days, but on hearing his story, they have remained together forever. Now Patrick is his legal parent and they reside together on South Carolina.
Patrick told Good Morning America:
"Once I knew the parents' rights were signed off and he had nowhere to go, I [knew] I had to take him. I had the room, the resources, so I had no reason to let him go."
Patrick describes Tony has the nicest, smartest, kid you could possibly imagine.
Peter spoke of how he had grown up in Uganda, Africa, and had suffered severe abuse from his family growing up. Aged 10, he ran away from home and was adopted by a kindly guardian. He said of his own adoption story:
"They became my sponsor, my family. I grew up the poor of the poorest people on the planet. I grew up where no one told me to dream, that there was no future for me."
Eventually, Patrick made it to the United States and now works for a charity helping some of the poorest children in the world. He said:
"For what someone did for me, I wanted to do something for someone else."
Tony is now doing well in school and hopes to go on to study at college and help those that are less fortunate than himself. You watch see a video of their story below:
[Based on reporting by: Positive Outlooks]
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