Three orphaned siblings from Sierra Leone have finally arrived at their new home in Kentucky, nearly four years after a U.S. couple first tried to adopt them.
Lori Pyle waited nervously at Louisville International Airport on Tuesday afternoon last week to meet her husband Francis and their three new children, Sam, 17, Betty, 14, and Fallah, 10.
The adopted siblings will join the Pyle's three young children, Malachi, Mckenna, and Mackaden, in Oldham County to bring the family to eight.
Lori Pyle was visiting an orphanage in Sierra Leone in 2009 to deliver blankets as part of a volunteer program her daughter was involved with, when she met the children.
When she was back at her hotel one night, Sam escaped the orphanage and found her. He begged her to adopt him and his siblings, revealing they had been the victims of abuse.
At first they thought it would take seven months, but it soon stretched to years. Throughout it all, the Pyle's community and church helped them to raise the thousands of dollars needed for the process.