Despite having met and known each other at church for more than 20 years, a mother and her daughter failed to realize they were related.Mute daughter Tan Baoyu (name transliterated) had been placed under the care of others since she was a child. It was only when she had trouble applying for her MyKad (a national identity card for Malaysian citizens) and went in search of her biological mother that she discovered that the woman who had given birth to her had been by her side all along.
31 years ago, her biological mother Xie Yazhu (name transliterated) – who is also mute - conceived a child with an Indian man and gave birth to Baozhu. Baozhu’s father abandoned them, and because she was unable to bring up Baozhu on her own, Yazhu left her under the care of a Chinese couple.
Since her foster parents did not go through a formal adoption process when they took in Baozhu, she had not been able to apply for a MyKad when she was 12. She had to rely on a temporary IC when she took tests, attended interviews and registered her marriage.
After four months of searching, her foster mother Zheng Yarong (name transliterated) successfully tracked down Baozhu’s biological mother. After DNA analysis confirmed Baozhu’s relation to her birth mother, the National Registration Department finally issued a MyKad to Baozhu.
Ever since she was little, Baozhu had a habit of going to church to pray, and her biological mother was a member of that church’s congregation, so the two of them had actually known each other for more than 20 years. (AFP)
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