When a Brisbane woman discovered she was a child born of incest and rape, her world caved in around her. It was her “worst fear,” reports Daily Mail.
Lois Buch was adopted out at birth and although her childhood was very loving, at 23 she became curious about her biological mother and wrote her a letter.
They reunited in Sydney in 1992 and Lois said it was like “looking at her twin.” Her mother passed away a few years later from cancer, which is when one of her aunts disclosed the awful truth.
“She told me that my biological grandfather was my father. So my birth mother had been raped over many, many years, right through her childhood,” Ms Buch said on SBS’s Insight on Tuesday evening.
Until then, Lois had presumed her mother had fallen pregnant to a high school sweetheart and the discovery that she had was a victim of her father was shocking.
It was also revealed that her mother had not fallen pregnant once, but twice, and Lois had a sister born under the same circumstances who was also put up for adoption.
No charges were ever laid against her grandfather who died before Lois could confront him.
