A Californian couple has adopted seven siblings, all under the age of 16, who survived a car accident that took their biological parents' lives. After reading their tragic story on their Facebook page, Pam and Gary Willis, from Menifee, made the incredible decision to give the seven young children a home despite already having five children of their own.
In May 2018, children from San Diego, Calif., were orphaned after the family vehicle left their motorway and turned to his side to cause the death of their fatal injury to their 42-year old father and 31-year-old mum. The four brothers and three sisters were put to an orphanage without a family to care for them and were at risk of being divided.
Pam, a lawyer, said that it made her so sad when she saw the children's coverage. She saw them, and the siblings wanted a home.
She then decided to bring these children home, and they didn't have to go to someone else to love them. Every week Pam calls the Adoption Service to prove how much she needed these children to help. It was instant love from the moment we saw them.
She said she would look up at Gary and could see that they really love the seven siblings. 'We are happy to be able to do what we do, and it has been fascinating to bring them home and tell them that it is their home forever. All of them are very glad.
A few years before Pam and Gary had adopted the "magnification seven," as he calls them, they worked in the foster care system, and they mostly took care of two or three children at a time. The pair has five biological children, 32-year-old Matthew, 29-year-old Andrew, 26-year-old Alexa, a 22-year-old, and 19-year-old Sophia, all of whom have left home and produced six grandchildren so far.
They confess that they hadn't ever intended to adopt, but that all changed when Pam scrolled and she saw a news story about seven siblings who needed a house in the wake of a car accident. During the accident, each child was injured in various degrees of non-life threats.
Three months later, Pam and Gary became parents of 12
Pam said she and the veteran Gary of the US Navy did not think about taking all seven siblings twice in advance of phoning the adoption services. The couple was granted permission to visit the orphans for permanent adoption a few weeks after that, in March of last year.
In June of last year, Adelino, 15, Ruby,13, Aleecia, 8, Anthony, 7, Aubriella, 6, Leo, 5, and Xander, 4, were greeted in their home for the first time. Despite some early teething problems such as confidence problems and sleep disturbances, Pam added, the siblings have been a 'joy' from their day of moving in.
How worthwhile the job will be was never what the couple thought. For around a year, the magnificent seven were at home. In the areas of trust, affection, and healing, the couple did not expect that they would work so well with them. They described it as an unbelievable journey because the terrified, disregarded children could make progress in only one year.
