Minka Disbrow was raped in 1928; she was sixteen. Minka didn’t tell anyone, but then she found out she was pregnant.
Minka was sent to a young women’s home to have her baby in secret; living in the 1920s was a very different time.
She named her baby Betty Jane and soon after being born, Betty Jane was put up for adoption, Eighty years passed. During that time, Minka had wanted to be updated about her daughter and wrote letters.