To his surprise, he ended up on one of the missing persons websites. Adopted at the age of four from an orphanage in Hawaii, Carter has lived her entire life with her new parents in suburban southern New Jersey and never expected to end up at a missing persons site.
When news organizations reported the Carolina White story, Steve Carter was curious. Karina White discovered she was stolen instead of adopted after finding a photo of her baby on a missing persons website.
Carter knew he was adopted and was at peace, but at the age of thirty-five he decided to check out the missing persons website himself.
It was 2012 when Carter found a picture of himself on the missing persons website.
According to CBS News Philadelphia, where Carter lived, the photo was posted by Carter’s biological father. Carter’s mother reportedly put him up for adoption without telling Carter’s father.
Although Carter wasn’t kidnapped like Carolina White, he had a more complex adoption story than previously thought.
The photo was a photomontage made to look like him since the original photos of the missing person were of him as a baby in Hawaii.
After consulting with friends, Carter concluded that the missing persons list was indeed his, and the site helped him reconnect with his biological father and half-sister.
According to CNN, Carter’s father, Mark Barnes, reported the child missing after Carter’s mother took the child for a walk and never returned. Since the discovery, Carter told CNN he will stay in touch with his biological father and half-sister. However, as for Carter’s mother, no one has called her since the day she left childless Mark Barnes in Hawaii.
