Liberia: Murdered U.S.-Liberian Child's Last Gift to His Mother

A majority of African teenagers who are lucky to make it to the US never bother to call back home and greet parents left behind after the first few months. Kids as young as 5 years old are just too young to remember close relatives, including their biological parents.

But for Barway Collins who at age five, had to leave his biological mother Louise and travel to the US to live with his dad, Pierre Collins, that motherly touch was always present. It never left him up to the day he was reported missing followed by the discovery of his body in the Mississippi River, near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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