SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY

Roxy lived her entire life in a center of medical torture. No one knew her full story. One day she received dolls and stuffed animals, as a gift, when she was transferred to the Sanctuary. She just paid attention to toys that resembled primates. Her desire to be a mother, so often frustrated in her soul, left the immense longing to have a baby in her arms, no matter it was true or fictitious.

The true story of Roxy – later completed – shows the atrocities that have been made in the United States with laboratory chimpanzees, which continues until today.

Roxy was born in Sierra Leone, Africa, nearly 50 years ago. Very young, after the death of her parents by hunters who received an order to capture babies to send to the United States, she began her reproductive life at Former Coulston Foundation, New Mexico, where she arrived to procreate 8 babies who never got breastfeeding . Anesthetized, a birth after another, when she woke up, the baby who came out of her uterus had disappeared.

Roxy could only be an adoptive mother a few years ago, when two babies, Marion and Dylan, born in different torture centers, were not with their biological mothers. Marion’s mother died and the mother of Dylan did not know how to feed and raise him and this had to be done by human keepers. When they were at the age of integration with adults, were handed over to Roxy, who, with the help of Janice, a teenager, could take care of those babies and sensed her maximum desire: to be a mother.

Roxy never knew five of her eight stolen children – Brandon, Brandy, Eboni, Jimbo and Spanky . They lived just a few feet away in the same Sanctuary.  Another child was found alive in another torture center care, the Texas Biomedical Research.

Maybe Roxy prolonged her life the maximum she could to achieve the taste to be a mother, no matter she was an adoptive one. After this experience, Roxy gave her soul to infinity, leaving behind the affection and respect of those who knew her and were able to see the tragedy of a mother who never got to be in abundance. Rest in peace, great Roxy!

Dr. Pedro  A. Ynterian