A Vietnamese baby born with a large facial tumor, who was given up for adoption, has reunited with his birth parents at the age of 18 after growing up in California.
Sam Ettore was born in Phu Rieng, Vietnam, with a benign cavernous hemangioma covering half his face. He was transferred to a hospital in the country’s capital, Ho Chi Minh City, and on to Go Vap Orphanage, where John and Hope Ettore of the United States found him. He was malnourished, blind in one eye, and riddled with scabies and other skin infections.
John, 59, and Hope, 51, took Sam into their home and their hearts and funded his lengthy recovery journey. Today, the teen lives with his parents and five siblings in Ramona, California….