Apologies if this video clip has been already posted, but I hadn't seen it. It's Erica's bio mom talking about why she gave her up and the last time she saw her.
http://www.wistv.com/story/23244470/erica-parsons-biological-mother-talks-to-wbtv-at-friday-vigil
I just watched that video also, and transcribed it !!
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Carolyn: "I'm in somebodies nightmare and they will not wake up and let me out."
Carolyn: "My heart dropped to my feet. Whether I raised her or whether I didn't, she is still my biological child."
When Erica was just a few months old, Carolyn said she gave the baby to her in-laws, Casey and Sandy Parsons, the same Casey and Sandy Parsons that are now facing mounting speculation over Erica's mysterious disappearance.
Carolyn: "No mother wants to have children and just give them up. I didn't want to. She didn't deserve the life that I had, being bounced, being put in foster care, in children's homes, emergency shelters. She didn't deserve that."
Parsons said the last time she saw Erica was January 5, 2011, almost an entire year before Erica allegedly went to live with her biological grandmother. But as we were first to report, that biological grandmother died in 2005.
Carolyn: "I was tickled to death to see her in January (2011). I was tickled to death that we were going to have some kind of bond. She didn't have to call me mama. She didn't ever have to say I love you," Parsons said.
But that bond quickly ended after Parsons told us Casey and Sandy kept her away from Erica after that January 2011 meeting.
The next time she heard anything about her daughter was about three weeks ago when she said authorities told her Erica had been missing for two years.
Carolyn: "I hope she's still alive. I hope she sees this, and just knows that I do care, that I am concerned and that I do love her."
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