Girl kidnapped aged four miraculously reunited with family 53 years later

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Girl kidnapped aged four miraculously reunited with family 53 years later
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A girl who was kidnapped at the age of four has been miraculously reunited with her family 53 years later.

Susan Gervaise, now 57, was taken from her biological family in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, by a couple in 1969.

But even then she did not think about contacting her biological family until one day a woman asked her if she wanted to know what they were thinking.Her husband Hamilton Gervaise posted on a Pontefract Facebook page and they located Ms Gervaise's family within 30 minutes.Ms Gervaise was reunited with four of her six siblings.At the time Ms Gervaise was taken she was living on a traveller site with her mother and siblings.

Whilst Ms Gervaise's 'adopted' mother died from MS when she was young, she said she was "raised in the hub of a travelling community" and was "very loved".She returned to Australia aged 19 and married Mr Gervaise.Ms Gervaise pictured at her biological mother's grave.Meanwhile in Pontefract, the search for the missing girl never stopped.

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