Artur Samarin

Ukrainian people were starving, my mother, my grandfather, and my grandma ... they put their last money for me to come here and they told me we wish you well do your best, man. Do it for all of us.

I just want you to know it was not my idea, stephayne came up with the idea that we are going to adopt you.

Everything they ask of me I could not tell them no, if I say no they gonna call immigration and send me back which I did not want. I was afraid of that so I was cleaning the toilet, I was cooking for them, I was doing everything in (the) house, all the house work. Stephayne was taking classes in HACC and I was doing homework for her. Pretty much like a slave driver system but I didn't mind as long as I'm going to school.

I am guilty. I am, it's justice. What can I say? I did abuse the system. Yes I did. I did use this identity and it's the law. ... I'm here in this prison because I've done a crime.

It's all about education, i'm not regretting doing it. I have spent all of my free time on education. I tried to do better for the society.

We are going to bump five years of age and we can adopt you because at 20 years old we can't adopt you, so bump five ages and we will adopt you. I said ok, looks like I have no choice. I really had no choice, either go back to war or do this. And they bumped five years of my age and they did not adopt me but make me their legal child.