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LAWRENCE — Tammie Hemlee has always been candid with her children, but the truth she waited to tell her son, Angus, is that if things had gone according to plan, she never would have known him.But things have never really gone according to plan with Angus Quigley.The truth is that in 1985, Hemlee was 18 with a 2-year-old daughter and things were bad enough as it was. Hemlee herself was a ward of the state of Texas and had spent much of her life bouncing from foster home to foster home. Her mother, an alcoholic and schizophrenic, had been ruled unfit."One place to one place," Hemlee said, "one sister to the next sister."At school one day, a classmate raped and impregnated Hemlee. She didn't know what to do. A senior in high school with no real home to go to, no support from her mother and a toddler she was already trying to care for, Hemlee decided she would give away her unborn baby."I didn't want to have an abortion," she said, "but I wanted him to have a good home because I knew I couldn't take care of him."That was the plan all along. She carried her boy to term and delivered him in a county hospital in Fort Worth. When a child is going to be put up for adoption, the procedure is to deliver the baby and basically whisk it away immediately. But the doctors made a mistake and brought Hemlee her son. Recovering in the hospital, Hemlee had three days with her son before doctors came to take him away."On the third day, when they came to get him, I told my sister, 'I can't give him up now,' " Hemlee said. "I promised I'll work two jobs, I'll do whatever, I just can't give up my baby."She named him Angus.Angus Quigley has pretty much always known his mom was raped, but it wasn't until he was 15 that Tammie told him the whole story. His father did time for the assault and Tammie said Angus didn't even know about him until he was 15.He looks distantly into the floor as if it is the horizon, and he recalls how he felt when his mom told him about the circumstances that brought him into the world."It's real crazy," he said. "When you're young, you don't really know the whole gist of what rape is, but my mom sat down and she talked to me. It was real crazy when she dropped that."
Seeing Sherron and the Delta Chi frat on campus must have been a constant reminder for that poor young man.Godspeed fella.
This story pisses me off!!!!!!! There was an adoptive family who probably paid all of her medical expenses during the pregnancy and then when the baby was finally the born, the selfish mom says, no I think I'll keep him. The adoptive family is now devestated thanks to her.
