A blind mother had her daughter stolen from her while she was in hospital just hours after birth, newly-surfaced documents have confirmed.
Lorice Jackson gave birth to Marnita at the private Homer G Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, 1961, which is at the center of claims newborns were sold by hospital officials for cash without their mother's consent.
Hours later doctors told her the baby had died, but she was not given a death certificate and wasn't allowed to see the child.
But the revelations that followed show that she is in fact still alive, but was raised by somebody else.
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Search: Lorice Jackson, who is blind, gave birth to Marnita at the private Homer G Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, 1961. Hours later she was told the baby had died, but recent revelations show she is till alive
Rose Jackson, one of Lorice's other daughters, was attending 5th grade at Hemstead School when she noticed a girl who looked similar to her.
She told FOX 2: 'I was like wow, she looks like me and I was curious and I went and asked her name, you know just being a kid, being friendly.'
The girl said her name was Marnita. Curious, Rose went home and told her mother.
Marnita went home and did the same, but her mother reacted by transferring her to another school.
The encounter sparked a search effort, which came to a head in 1992.
Shady documents were revealed during a court case that showed the mother and signed the consent for adoption.
Optimism: Marnita, (pictured left when younger and right now) whose second name is McGill and now lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is hoping the revelations will finally confirm who she is
A judge said it was 'suspect' and Pamela, Lorice's other daughter, confirmed it wasn't her mother's signature.
The court asked for proof, so Pamela handed over identification her mother used to carry around with her.
She showed her mother's signature - usually marked as an 'X' - claiming they were not the same shape.
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SharePamela and Rose recently visited the Health Department for answers. The Health Department took those records from the City run hospital.
They filled out forms, hoping city workers may be able to find more records.
Rose's birth certificate, filed two years after Marnita was born, also reveals some clues.
Under the section listing 'children previously born to this mother' it says '3 are now living.' That would include Marnita.
Below where it asks 'How many other children were born alive but are now dead?' It`s typed '0.'
Encounter: Rose Jackson, one of Lorice's other daughters, believes she ran into her sister for the first time while in 5th grade. She noticed a girl that looked strikingly similar and asked her name, which was Marnita
Marnita, whose second name is McGill and now lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is hoping the revelations will finally confirm who she is.
After the case in 1992, she was told she wasn't the person who she first thought she was.
Speaking to FOX 2 via Skype, she said: 'I`m like torn. Who am I this this day? Who am I that day?
'I was raised as an only child. I didn`t have that sisterly bond of those sisters to play with and grow with. I didn`t have that. I was the only one that was alone.'
Homer G. Phillips Hospital, a facility built to service African-American families, has been at the center of sensational claims after 20 women came forward, claiming their babies had been taken away by hospital officials with consent.
Many families have come forward claiming they were the victims of a 'cash on delivery' scheme being run out of a Missouri hospital in the 50s and 60s. The facility closed in 1979 and it is now a retirement home.
Proof: On Pamela Jackson-Hamilton's birth certificate, under the section listing 'children previously born to this mother' it says '3 are now living.' That would include Marnita
Homer G. Phillips Hospital, a facility built to service African-American families, has been at the center of sensational claims after 20 women came forward, claiming their babies had been taken away by hospital officials. The hospital closed in 1979 and is now a retirement
The stories are similar to that experience by Lorice. Black babies were sold straight after they were born and the mothers told their children had died.
Zella Jackson Price, who said she was 26 in 1965, gave birth at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis.
Hours later, she was told that her daughter had died, but she never saw a body or a death certificate.
But Price managed to find her daughter, Diane Gilmore, and on April 9 the two met for the first time after almost 50 years apart.
Jessie Ferguson was born in 1957. His mother was 15 at the time and was told the first of her twin boys was stillborn - but now Ferguson believes his brother may be alive and was raised by another family.
Ferguson's mother, Joyce McKinley, 73, said she never got to see the child doctors told her had died.
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