Delimar Vera spent her early years with the woman who snatched her. Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party …
When Delimar Vera was six years old, the woman she thought was her mother – Carolyn Correa – turned to her and said, “There’s a bad lady who wants to take you away from us, but you’re not going to let her, right?”
Vera promised she wasn’t going anywhere; she’d tell the “bad lady” to get off her. “I was a sassy kid,” she says now, 20 years on. Remembering that strange exchange still gives Vera chills. It was Correa herself that had taken Vera away, kidnapping her as a newborn, crossing over from Philadelphia to New Jersey, changing Delimar’s name to Aaliyah and raising her as her own. “It’s mind-blowing to think that the bad lady that Carolyn was talking about was actually my real mother,” she says.
Continue reading… Delimar Vera spent her early years with the woman who snatched her. Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party …When Delimar Vera was six years old, the woman she thought was her mother – Carolyn Correa – turned to her and said, “There’s a bad lady who wants to take you away from us, but you’re not going to let her, right?”Vera promised she wasn’t going anywhere; she’d tell the “bad lady” to get off her. “I was a sassy kid,” she says now, 20 years on. Remembering that strange exchange still gives Vera chills. It was Correa herself that had taken Vera away, kidnapping her as a newborn, crossing over from Philadelphia to New Jersey, changing Delimar’s name to Aaliyah and raising her as her own. “It’s mind-blowing to think that the bad lady that Carolyn was talking about was actually my real mother,” she says. Continue reading… Documentary, US crime, Family, US news, World news, Life and style, Factual TV
