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‘They are still my girls’: American mom who sold her twins to British couple lays claim to them as their adoptive mother reveals how she ‘hijacked’ their graduation

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;They are still my girls&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Florida woman who sold her twins on twice on the internet 17 years ago lays claim to them as their adoptive mother reveals how she &&num;8216&semi;hijacked&&num;8217&semi; their graduation<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Twin sisters Kiara and Keyara hit headlines in 2001 when a Welsh couple were forced to relinquish custody of the sisters they bought for &dollar;10&comma;000 online <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>They&&num;8217&semi;d already been sold for &dollar;5&comma;200 t a California couple&comma; by their birth mother Tranda Wecker <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>FBI intervention saw the girls returned to the US and given to a third set of adoptive parents in Missouri who have raised them <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Wrecker tried to force her way back into their lives this year&comma; driving<&sol;strong><strong> 600 miles from Florida to get photo with girls in ceremonial gowns <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;Wanted to make it look like she&&num;8217&semi;d played part in their upbringing&comma;&&num;8217&semi; a friend sai<&sol;strong>d <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The college bound twins<strong> want nothing to do with Tranda Wecker&comma; their birth mother&comma; after the hurt she caused them<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled&equals;"">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"count-text"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-298828" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;08&sol;Kiara-and-Keyara-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Kiara and Keyara 2" width&equals;"783" height&equals;"558" &sol;><strong>The twins&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb; at their high school graduation&comma; want nothing to do with Tranda Wecker&comma; their birth mother&comma; after the hurt she caused them<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The US mother who sold her twins to a British couple over the internet tried to force her way back into the kids&&num;8217&semi; lives 17 years later by &&num;8216&semi;hijacking&&num;8217&semi; their graduation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Tranda Wrecker actually sold her identical twin daughters for her share of &dollar;10&comma;000 in 2001 when they were just six months old&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The girls&comma; Kiara and Keyara&comma; now 18&comma; wanted nothing to do with their birth mother after the hurt she caused them throughout their lives&period; The wily birth mother&comma; however contrived this year to drive 600 miles from Florida to crash their high school graduation in Missouri&period; She was intent on masquerading like she&&num;8217&semi;d played a role in their upbringing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-298834" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;08&sol;Tranda-Wecker-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Tranda Wecker 1&period;JPG" width&equals;"601" height&equals;"751" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Late to the party&colon; Tranda Wecker &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; hijacked her twin daughters&&num;8217&semi; high school graduation 17 years after trying to sell them online&comma; twice<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div> The twins&comma; who grew up knowing their story want nothing to do with their birth mother after the hurt she caused them<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;Tranda recently came up to attend the girls&&num;8217&semi; high school graduation in May but they knew what she was doing&comma;&&num;8217&semi; their adoptive mothersaid in an interview&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;She wanted that picture with them to share in their success&period; The success was down to the girl&&num;8217&semi;s hard work&comma; nothing less&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The girls saw through it&period; They have met only a handful of times&period; Sometimes they have refused to see her they&&num;8217&semi;ve been hurt so much&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"> <strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-298835" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;08&sol;Kiara-and-Keyara-at-six-months&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Kiara and Keyara at six months&period;JPG" width&equals;"1193" height&equals;"810" &sol;>The sisters seen at six months&comma; were brought up knowing about their extraordinary story&period; After graduating high school&comma; the 18-year-olds and are studying social sciences in college<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-298830" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;08&sol;Kiara-and-Keyara-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Kiara and Keyara 4" width&equals;"666" height&equals;"1088" &sol;><strong>The girls on their 16th birthday&period; As infants they were sold twice before feds intervened and had them returned to the states and and handed them over to be be raised by a third set of foster parents in Missouri<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitRight">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div>A former close friend of Wecker said she wanted to be photographed with the girls in their ceremonial gowns to make it look like she&&num;8217&semi;d played a part in their lives&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">When confronted about it&comma; Wecker claimed &&num;8216&semi;they were still her girls&&num;8217&semi; before being appearing in the photoshoot with sisters for the first time in since she parted with them as infants&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Alan and Judith Kilshaw from Buckley&comma; North Wales&comma; bought the Missouri-born twins for &dollar;10&comma;000 over the internet 17 years ago in a deal that shocked the world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The babies &&num;8211&semi; named Belinda and Kimberley by the Kilshaws &&num;8211&semi; were brought into Britain on holiday visas and their new parents were made wards of the court by their council in North Wales&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The deal was already completed and the twins taken back to Wales when the Kilshaws realized a California couple had already paid to take custody of the kids through an adoption agency &&num;8211&semi; all thanks to a scam perpetrated by their birth mother&period; It was revealed that Tranda Wecker had previously sold her twin babies to another set of parents in California&period; The six-month-old girls were first purchased by California couple Richard and Vickie Allen for &dollar;5&comma;200 through an adoption broker&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; following the involvement of the FBI&comma; a trans-Atlantic legal battle was launched and the girls were eventually returned to the US where they were handed over to a new foster family in Missouri&period; That was not the bottom for Wrecker&period; In 2006 Wecker who had vowed to regain full custody of the children&comma; won access to see them that year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img-group floatRHS">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-298833" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;08&sol;Alan-Kilshaw-and-Judith-Kilshaw-with-the-infant-Kiara-and-Keyara-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alan Kilshaw and Judith Kilshaw with the infant Kiara and Keyara 2&period;JPG" width&equals;"788" height&equals;"596" &sol;><strong>British<&sol;strong> <strong>Social Services &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma;  remove the twins from the care of Alan and Judith Kilshaw &lbrack;photo&comma; left with the children&rsqb; at The Beaufort Park Hotel in Wales in January 2001&period; Alan and Judith Kilshaw tried to buy the girls on the internet for &dollar;10&comma;000 in 2001&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>Wecker&comma; who has now given birth to six children including a four-year-old boy&comma; is alleged to have tried to cash in on a book deal telling her story about the scandal&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">She&&num;8217&semi;s now locked in a bitter custody battle with her third husband&comma; Toney Miller&comma; over their little boy Conrad&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Under the terms of the agreement between them&comma; Conrad is supposed to sleep at the homes of each parent when in their care but Wecker has reportedly been taking the youngster to her new lover&&num;8217&semi;s home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mother and son reportedly stayed over at new boyfriend Chris Fultz&&num;8217&semi;s third-floor apartment for several nights&period; Miller on his part said he is not relenting fighting to get Conrad away from his mother and into a &&num;8216&semi;stable and loving environment&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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