An Inconceivable Lie

He had explained to his family that he had been kidnapped by a child-trafficking ring that was run by non-other than US military officers. He also said that they had dyed his hair and changed his eye color from blue to brown chemically. He went on to say that he was also forced to learn and speak only French, and was punished if he spoke any English at all. Plus he had the same tattoos that the young Nicky had before he was taken.

His So-Called Family

And even though all these things seemed completely preposterous to outsiders, his mom was just so happy to have her boy home that she didn’t want to see the truth. She did share that she thought that the differences in her son were quite strange, but ‘he had been through so much,’ and she wanted so strongly to believe that his coming home was true. But the others knew better.