‘I want my son to know he was adopted’

TRESSA REEVES, whose son was illegally adopted and registered as the natural child of the adoptive parents, says she has received no assistance from the Adoption Authority more than a year after her case was exposed.

The Adoption Authority has been aware of the full details of the case since 2001, as have three former ministers for children: Brian Lenihan, Mary Hanafin and Barry Andrews.

Yet, despite the publicity surrounding her case since it was revealed in the Irish Examiner in April last year, the authority has yet to assist her in tracing her son. It has also declined to inform her son about his origins.