Mother of 'internet twins' could gain visitation rights
The natural mother of the so-called ‘internet twins’ could get visitation rights to the girls she was once accused of selling online to a Welsh couple, but only after a US therapist tells the twins of their mother’s existence.
Tranda Conley’s daughters, Kiara and Keyara, are now five. They live in Missouri, but their location and the names of their foster parents are being kept secret.
In St Louis Circuit Court yesterday, during a hearing that led to the visitation agreement, the girls’ case manager said they were “doing extremely well” and seemed happy with their foster parents.
Conley, then known as Tranda Wecker, made headlines in 2003 when British news reports said she had sold her twins first to a California couple, then to a couple from Wales who complained to media that they had been “ripped off”.
Criminal charges were filed against the adoption broker, but were later dropped.
Conley always denied taking money for the girls, and the Missouri Supreme Court found in 2004 that ‘nothing in the record supports media stories that the mother attempted to sell her twins’.
