Foster parents' heartbreak after adopted disabled son 'that nobody wanted' dies
dailyrecord.co.ukA foster couple have spoken of their heartbreak following the death of their adopted son, who was once branded the baby that "no one wanted".
Callum suffered serious injury as a toddler, which left him blind and deaf, and he was also diagnosed with quadriplegia cerebral palsy and epilepsy, the Mirror reports.
Not expected to survive past two years old, Callum defied all odds and lived to the age of 27. Following his death in April this year, his adopted parents, Beryl and Murray Horton, say they their lives now feel "empty" and that they desperately miss his "smile and laughter".
Callum was found "apparently lifeless" at the home of his birth parents, Gail Woodward and Mark Chamberlain, in 1995. He had sustained severe brain damage and was left blind, deaf and in need of a wheelchair.The youngster's parents pleaded guilty to wilful neglect for failing to take him to hospital and and were sentenced to two years' probation.
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