Woman Posing as Social Worker Kidnaps a U.S. Marine’s Newborn

Authorities believe Kevin Verville Jr. is alive and unaware that he was abducted 45 years ago.

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Kevin Art Verville Jr. was born on June 14, 1980, in Southern California. His mother, Angelina, was 22 years old and an immigrant from the Philippines. She had met 21-year-old Kevin Verville Sr., a US Marine corporal, while he was stationed in her country two years earlier.

The couple lived at Sterling Homes, an off-base apartment complex for military families stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, San Diego County.

Kevin was born with jaundice and was a week old when Angelina and Kevin Sr. were finally able to bring him home. Just days after the family settled down, a woman showed up at their apartment and introduced herself as Sheila.

Sheila claimed to be a social worker with Project Help, an organization that assisted low-income military families. She offered to help the new parents with food, diapers, formula, and possibly $100 in monthly benefits.

Angelina and Kevin Sr. accepted the aid, and Sheila promised to come back to enroll them in the program.