US EditionLong Lost Family: Born Without Trace - Series 7 - Episode 2
- Three siblings, David McBride, John Dowling, and Helen Ward, were abandoned as babies in Ireland between 1962 and 1968 and later discovered their sibling relationship in 2020 through DNA testing on the show Long Lost Family.
- The siblings believe they have a fourth sibling and are creating a documentary, The Phone Box Babies, to help find them and share their family story.
- During the documentary, the siblings confront their parents' complicated relationship and discover many half-siblings, hoping to uncover their family's past.
- Helen expressed that the documentary fosters understanding and empathy regarding their experiences and encourages people to help others with similar situations.
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Jon Scarlett-Phillips was found in the parking lot of a leisure centre in Milton Keynes, UK, with his placenta still attached, in September 1984.
Newly born, and with the placenta still attached, his mother wrapped him in a blanket, put him in a supermarket bag and left him to his fate in a garbage dump in the bathroom of a recreational center.The above is the graphic description of the first chapter of Jon Scarlett-Phillips' life story, which, against all odds, has been 40 years.Four decades after that traumatic day in 1984, the English man had the encounter he so longed for.As part of t…
Moment man abandoned as baby in plastic bag finally meets birth family
A man who was abandoned as a baby inside a plastic bag had an emotional reunion with his birth family on Wednesday's (25 June) episode of Long Lost Family on ITV. In September 1984, Jon Scarlett-Phillips was discovered in the toilet of a leisure centre car park in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, wrapped in a blanket. Now 40, he enlisted the help of the show, presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, to trace his birth mother. In an emotional scen…
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