Matthew Roberts was given up for adoption as a baby. Growing up in Rockford, Illinois he didn’t know of his origins until his sister shocked him in the fifth grade by telling him he was adopted.
Like many adopted children, Roberts, now 41, embarked on a mission to find his biological parents. He wanted to know most especially who his father was.
Roberts, who now lives in Los Angeles, started his search 12 years ago when he contacted the Lutheran Social Services agency that located his mother Terry in Wisconsin.
He immediately wrote to her and she replied to confirm that she was his mother.
“She said she named me Lawrence Alexander and told me she’d tell me my last name some other time in person,” Roberts remembers.
Curious and confused, he pressed his mother for more information until she finally revealed the awful truth in a series of letters. She admitted having been raped by his father in a drug-fueled orgy in 1967.
Roberts, who is the spitting image of his father, the convicted serial killer Charles Manson, allegedly fell into depression after discovering his identity.
“He’s my biological father — I can’t help but have some kind of emotional connection,” Roberts said. “That’s the hardest thing of all — feeling love for a monster who raped my mother. I don’t want to love him, but I don’t want to hate him either.”
[via thesun.co.uk]
It is rape when the victim is rendered helpless, hence the drugs and alcohol. It’s written in the law.
…ummm if there was an orgy in the 60s that led to this man’s conception then any one with a set of testicles that was present at the previously mentioned orgy could have been his genetic father.
If you consider that it was the 60’s then likely any male his genetic mother came into contact with could have been his biological male parent.
The facts he writes music & poetry have nothing to do with his father at all, the fact he has mental heath issues may not either considering his biological mother admits to abusing drugs during his conception-she may even have been abusing them the entire time of her pregnancy.
You know before he meets his daddy he may want a paternity test done to find out who the man really is doesn’t Maury Povich still do them for ya if you put your a** up on the stage on the freak show that bares his name.
I think Matthew Roberts has the makings of being an absolutely wonderful son to his birth mother. He should focus on that–and transform his sadness into gratitude to his mother for having the courage to give him life, and having the courage to give him good parents. He was lucky she did both. She knew he deserved love and he got it. He should focus on the fact that he deserves love, is able to multiply that love by giving it back to others, and be the wonderful man his biological father never was. In other words, he should just be himself and feel wonderful and smile about it. He is here in part to help heal his birth mother. No need to be ashamed of his father–he is not his father–he is an entirely different spirit given a powerful life experience that is his to create from in amazing ways. When I saw his face, I could only smile with compassion, for compassion reflects back from his photo.
Frank, his birth date is March 22, 1968. There’s the math. His website is here: newrisingson.com
This guy appears to be selling a book and a band; this sounds like publicity bs to me.
If this were me, I’d want DNA testing done for freaking proof. Wouldn’t be the first time a woman has either been mistaken or has outright lied (for whatever reason) about who fathered her child. If it is true, it’s beyond a major bummer, but none of us can help who our parents are.
It’s not really rape if it’s a drug induced orgy, now is it? His mom was probably just another free love 60’s hippy sl*t. Let’s call it how it probably was. They were tripping balls and having sex with everyone in the room.
Also, Charlie Manson was not a serial killer. To be a serial killer, you would have had to kill multiple people, and since he never killed one person, that hardly qualifies.