A woman took to Facebook in an appeal for help to find her long-lost auntie, who had been given away at birth.
Ms Jasmine Liu posted the appeal earlier this month on her own personal page, as well as on Lost and Found Group Singapore and the Jiran Lama Kg Kaki Bukit Singapura pages. She wrote that her 93-year-old grandmother wanted to reconnect with the daughter she had given up at birth, 66 years ago, to a childless Malay couple.
“My aunt born in 1956 and she is the 7th child of the 10 children. Grandma said she was staying at the farmland at 99 Jalan Chekor back then and the couple stayed near the farm. The couple has 2 adopted children. Jalan Chekor has expunged and should be somewhere Kaki Bukit area,” Ms Liu wrote, adding that anyone with information should contact her.
In her posts on the other pages, she wrote that the child attended an English school and that the address indicated on her birth certificate had been “either 99 Jalan Chekor / 754-1 Lorong Tai Seng.”
On Wednesday (Sept 28), a story about the family’s search published on Mothership featured more details.
The grandmother, Madam Tan, said that the baby had been born with teeth, which, according to some Chinese traditions, could bring bad luck to the family.
Her mother and mother-in-law pressured Mdm Tan to give the child up.
She added that neither she nor her husband played a role in the decision and that her mother-in-law told them to never see their daughter again.
The baby was adopted by a Malay family through a middleman. The father, an airport worker and the mother, a housewife, later went on to adopt another girl.
They also reached out to Mdm Tan via the middleman, asking her to promise that she would not reunite with her daughter.
Mothership added that she only saw the girl once, by accident, when the child was 10 years old, and walking home from school. She was pointed out to Mdm Tan by the middleman, who was nearby.
TISG has reached out to Ms Liu for further comment.