May is National Foster Care Month, and in an effort to raise awareness, FOX 26's Gabby Hart is sharing a piece of her own story.
She's opening up about her journey through the foster care system, and how it all started at Hobby airport in 1989. "I was walking around the garage, and I heard a baby crying; so, I followed it, and I found the baby laying in the back of the pick-up truck, and I thought, what is this going?" said former HPD officer Kathleen Biryla. She's pictured in a newspaper article holding that infant.
Gabby & Natalie returned to Cleveland, Ohio, and briefly lived with their biological family, but taking care of them with the pressure of their mother led to the family becoming overwhelmed. Gabby entered the foster care system at 3-years-old, Natalie was 7. Dejuana Jernigan, President of Arms Wide Adoption and Foster Agency in Houston, weighed in, "That sibling who may have been their only connection to who they are is gone," she said. Jernigan says when children experience these traumas so young it can make it hard for them to stay in the foster homes they're placed in after, which leads to them constantly moving.
During a Zoom interview, Gabby asked her sister if the few good foster parents canceled all of the bad ones, "Yes. it made me, it made me realize people aren't all the same," Natalie replied.
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