‘I NEVER HAD A CHOICE’
SHE was six years old when her world was suddenly turned upside down – and now, 23 years later, she still recalls that fateful day as if it were yesterday.
“I clung to my mom and dad like a little monkey,” Yolandi Els says. “They had to tear me away from them. It was extremely traumatic.”
The “mom and dad” she’s referring to are the foster parents who raised her from when she was just a few weeks old.
But six years later, her biological mom and her new husband came to take her away and Yolandi was forced to leave the people she
