Toby Dawson’s Parents May Have Been Found
It looks like Toby Dawson may have found his birth parents in Korea:
A man from Busan on Sunday went public with a claim that he is the father of U.S. freestyle skier Toby Dawson, who took bronze in the men’s mogul competition at the Turin Winter Olympics. Kim Jae-su (52) said he got calls from relatives and friends who told him Dawson looked just like him. “So I looked at the papers and confirmed it myself,” Kim said. “There is no doubt that this is the son I lost 25 years ago.”
This is how he claims he lost his son:
Kim lost his son in 1981, when the boy became separated from his mother in the crowd at a local market. Dawson was found near the same place and taken to an orphanage, where he lived until he was adopted by an American couple.
The Kims say they searched high and low for their lost son. “I didn’t think reporting it to the police would be of any help, so I went around looking for him myself,” Kim said. The couple covered most orphanages and markets in the city but could only search on their days off and got around on foot or by bus, so their progress was slow.
Some how I don’t think they looked for him as hard as they claim, especially if he was sitting in the most obvious place, a local orphanage, but who knows. However, the resemblance between Dawson, Mr. Kim, and his son is uncanny:
