Chapter 8
FRANKIE emailed me the signed authority form the next day. In my lunch hour at work, over my salad wrap, I studied the information she’d given me. Jacob Mitchell Van Graf DOB 6 June 1983. Frances Margaret Slater DOB 23 March 1981. That made Jacob 23, two years younger than Frankie. Address 64 Bryants Rd Macquarie Fields. Mother Adele Pauline Hoffman DOB 13 July 1959. Father of Jacob, Thomas Witton. Frankie didn’t know his second name or date of birth.
It took two weeks of phone calls and emails to Family and Community Services to obtain any information. I came to the same roadblock that Frankie had. Jacob had lived with a number of different foster families before being taken in by a foster family at the age of 10, who officially adopted him when he was 12. They requested that
