Mom makes contact with sons adopted and taken to US

Kevin and Mickey as they are today.

Mere hours after her story was published in this newspaper Rose Park-Bennett (known previously as Kavita Singh) got her heart’s desire: she received confirmation that her two sons, who were adopted after spending nine years in state care, were alive and doing well.

“It is like a whole ton load a weight come off of me shoulder. You can’t begin to understand how I feel. This is what I was hoping for all this time,” a sobbing Park-Bennett told the Sunday Stabroek via phone.

It was last week Sunday that this newspaper published Park-Bennett’s story of how her sons—Krishnan (known as Mickey) DeCunha and Kevin DeCunha—were adopted from the C I Children’s Home where they had been placed by the state. Their mother had taken them to the then Ministry of Human Services and Social Security.

The woman had related that at that time she was fleeing an abusive husband who was addicted to hard drugs and with whom