mother? >> just she had abandoned the girls, that after the dad died, they told us she didn't feed them, that they were found sick, like, dying, basically. >> reporter: viola, it turns out, was taken to the same orphanage as mada's, god's mercy, but later at her new home in west virginia, as viola became fluent in english, the truth started to unfold. >> a lot of it was how she talked about her mother, her experience and her home just did not match the paper work. >> reporter: stacy, who spoke exclusively with cnn, also contacted reunite uganda to find viola's biological mother. karen riley told us viola's mom was also lied to by local traffickers, using the same false promise of education in america. she wasn't an orphan. she was made an orphan so you could adopt her. >> right, right. >> reporter: stacy traveled back to uganda in november, 2016, and