MUM WHO SOLD HER BABIES FOR £8,200
Internet twins’ mother snubbed them growing up then had child
THIS is the American mother who sold her twins to a British couple online 18 years ago then had another baby, leaving her daughters asking: “Why give us away then have another?”
Tranda Wecker, 46, had little to do with Kiara and Keyara as they grew up with new adoptive parents in the US after being taken off Judith and Alan Kilshaw, a couple from Wales who had paid £8,200 for them.
The new adoptive mum told us: “Tranda came up to attend the girls’ high school graduation in May but they knew what she was doing. She wanted that picture with them to share in their success.
“The success was down to the girls’ hard work, nothing less. The girls saw through it. They have met only a handful of times. Sometimes they have refused to see her they’ve been hurt so much.”
An ex-friend of Tranda’s said: “She wanted a picture between the two of them in their caps and gowns.
“She tried to hijack one of the biggest days of the girls’ lives. Tranda has played no part in what fine girls they have become.”
Tranda made headlines in 2001 after the Kilshaws from North Wales paid a broker £8,200 to adopt the four-month-old twins.
The courts had the girls, who are now 18, returned to Missouri, in the US, where social services had found a family for them.
In 2006, Tranda, who got three years’ probation for fraud in 2002, won access to her daughters after a judge ordered Kiara and Keyara, who have new names the Mirror has chosen not to reveal, to be told the truth about their mother.
She has since shown little interest in building a relationship with the girls.
But at one point, it is alleged she tried to cash in on the story, claiming she had been paid an advance to write a book. The girls’ adoptive mum said: “I didn’t want the book to be written to protect the girls so I made her a deal. Tranda didn’t want the twins to know the truth of how she had given them up, so I told her if she didn’t go through with the book, I wouldn’t tell them. “She didn’t go through with the book.” Tranda wed third husband Toney Miller, in 2012, and had a son Conrad, now four.
She and Toney divorced last year and are now locked in a custody battle for the boy.
After Conrad’s birth in August 2014, Toney wanted Kiara and Keyara to meet their half-brother and when he was five months old the girls travelled to Tampa, Florida, with their adopted father, 72.
The visit hit the girls hard. The friend said: “Toney saw how hurt they were and vowed they should take a more active role in their lives but Tranda didn’t want to know. He said she should fight for custody, but she refused.”
In 2016, the marriage came crashing down when friends told Toney Tranda was seeing other men and he found a dating profile she had set up.
After Tranda allegedly attacked Toney as he held his son in his arms, a temporary court order banned her from contact, but they now share custody, caring for autistic Conrad one week at a time.
Conrad is supposed to sleep at Tranda’s home when in her care, but the Mirror watched as she took him to her new boyfriend Chris Fultz’s third-floor apartment, staying for several nights.
Toney said: “There is so much I could say but while Conrad’s care is still being determined it would be wrong to comment.
“What I will say is that I will never stop fighting for his full custody and to provide a stable and loving environment for him.”
Asked about her relationship with the twins, Tranda told us: “They are still my girls.” She added: “You write whatever you want to write. I really don’t care.”
She tried to hijack one of the biggest days of the girls’ lives FORMER FRIEND OF TRANDA WECKER