This 23-Year-Old Just Became A Father And Grandfather In The Same Day. How? It’s Incredible…

Every once in a while, a story crosses your path that is so remarkable, it takes your breath away.

Tommy Connolly was a regular 23-year-old college student. He studied hard, hung out with friends, and worked part-time. When he wasn’t in class, he was training hard in the hope of one day representing Australia as a champion sprinter.

But with one Facebook message, Tommy’s whole life was forever changed. Now, he’s supporting a daughter and a grandson, and working hard to earn his degree.

His story is so moving, it’s taking the internet by storm.

Tommy hadn't seen his teenage cousin in 10 years when she added him on Facebook out of the blue in December.

He messaged his 17-year-old cousin Angela* (name has been changed for legal reasons) to see how she was doing and soon found out she was homeless, illiterate and 32 weeks pregnant.

Mr Connolly picked her up from where she was sleeping rough on the Gold Coast, let her move into his flat, took care of her through the final stage of her pregnancy, adopted her and is now helping to raise her four-week-old baby boy.

Mr Connolly said Angela – whose last year of schooling was Year Six – had stopped taking hard drugs by the time she was 15 but at 16 she fell pregnant, and her baby's father was sent to prison soon afterward.

'It's not her fault she's just a little girl who needed help,' he said.

Because Mr Connolly was on university holidays at the time he had been working full time in his job at a fruit and vegetable wholesaler and he had saved $2800, just enough to cover the cost of moving into a new house and buying items for the baby.

He put his athletics training on hold so he could work enough hours to save money, but he returned to university as normal at the beginning of March because he didn't want to delay his studies.


Source: www.dailymail.co.uk