His 17-year-old, pregnant niece was adopted by a 23-year-old university boy

His 17-year-old, pregnant niece was adopted by a 23-year-old university boy
His 17-year-old, pregnant niece was adopted by a 23-year-old university boy
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Hundreds of people have offered to help 23-year-old Australian university student Tommy Connolly after it was revealed he adopted his 17-year-old homeless niece. The 32-week pregnant girl had no one to turn to: neither the child's father nor her own parents took care of her, the Independent reported.

Tommy Connolly, an aspiring athlete at the University of the Sunshine Coast, said he hadn't seen his niece in more than a decade at the time. The pregnant girl lived and slept on the beach, had no shoes, no phone, and hadn't been to school in who knows how long. The father of the fetus was in prison, the girl's parents were not in the picture.

That's when the 23-year-old boy decided to take care of his niece, take her in and help her take care of the baby. As he wrote on Facebook: this was his only chance. She has spent more time on the streets than anywhere else and knows the police better than her own family. He could write a book about the many horrors he experienced. No one deserves such a life, Connolly believed.

In addition to university and training, Connolly sold fruit and vegetables on the beach so that they could have money to move to a new apartment, where they could create suitable conditions for the arrival of the baby, who was born in March. The umbilical cord was cut by Connolly.

Photo from: Gofundme
Photo from: Gofundme

The young man's brother, Liam, has also organized a community fundraiser, they want to collect 50,000 Australian dollars to support the strange family. They are doing well, 1,400 people have offered in 27 days, a total of 48,000 Australian dollars so far. Which Connolly says is a great feeling, but he always feels a little guilty about the attention he gets, he said, because he thinks there are probably a lot of people in a similar situation. That's why he doesn't want people to think that it's something special and unique.

Connolly, in addition to the young girl and the baby, actually plays the role of the father: he takes care of them as he should (the child's father), but he sees that 90 percent of the tasks are done by the mother. He feels that it is really nothing to take a year or two out of his life so that the life of the mother and the baby will be settled and they will be safe.

And the niece wrote on Facebook that she feels like the luckiest person in the world. Since her pregnancy, everyone told her that they were going to take her baby away from her, which made her pregnancy very difficult, she says. She just wants to give her child a better life than what she got - she summed up the common desire of all mothers. And of course, he can't thank his cousin enough.

By the way, Connolly didn't just start philanthropy, he previously cycled from Brisbane to Sydney to collect money for a school in Ecuador where underprivileged children attend.

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