Boxing coach saved two boys from domestic violence by adopting them (7 photos + 1 video)

Jack Mook is a 22-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Police Department. IN in his spare time, he volunteers at the Steel City boxing gym, where teaches children from low-income families boxing. One day, noticing that two his regular students had not appeared for a long time, he went to their home and discovered that foster parents created unbearable conditions for children existence. Therefore, Jack decided to replace his father with him.







In the photo from left to right - Josh, Jack and Jesse. Now they are father and sons.





Josh and Jesse are brothers. They were born into poverty and their only joy in life for a long time was the Steel boxing section City in Pittsburgh. Josh once recalled: “My parents, like me to everyone I say, always loved us. But they couldn't take care of themselves. We sleep in vans, we slept in campers, and other not-so-great places to sleep. When I walked into the Steel City boxing gym it was the friendliest place in my life. This is where a great friendship came to me.”



Coach Jack Mook paid a lot of attention to children who engaged in the boxing section. One day he noticed that Josh and Jessie had been did not show up for class. “We are worried about it. We talked about this. We went in search of them, ”Jack later said. Mook found the boys and learned that their parents had been deprived of parental rights due to drug problems. They were left in the care of their relatives, where they no longer lived in poverty - they were simply neglected, counting as free slaves.



“After much effort, I found Josh - in December, right before Merry Christmas,” Muk recalls. - He looked terrible: torn strands hair, some kind of rash on the back of the head, psoriasis, flea bites, sunken cheeks... I put Josh in the car and we went to get him something to eat.” Josh was very quiet during this short car ride. Jack decided to talk to him. “I again felt like not a coach, but a cop, Jack said. “I said, 'What's going on, Josh? You must tell me what happened." At some point, Josh could no longer hold back and burst into tears, telling Jack, "They make us clean carpet from dog excrement with toothbrushes.



After hearing Josh's horror stories about their lives, Jack said boy: “Joshua, just hold on. Take care of your brother. Give me time to find out what I can do." "When I got home, I felt selfish, felt guilty about having a whole big house, and these children meanwhile live in misery. So I immediately accepted the decision to get down to business and pick them up,” said the coach. Soon Jack started fighting for custody of the two boys. He had a whole house, so why not bring two guys who could use safe environment? Luckily for Jack, the boys' aunt and uncle there were serious problems with the law, and this accelerated the process. Soon Jack was allowed to take the boys.

Josh claims that he immediately believed that the coach could help them. “As soon as Jack and I got into the car, all the stress, all the anger, all the depression is gone,” the boy says.



A few years passed, and Jack officially adopted the brothers. “When the judge signed the adoption papers, I felt that happy, and the same happiness was reflected on the faces of the boys, ”says Jack. Josh speaks of his adoptive father with great respect. "He helped me realize your place in life, - says the boy. - He pulled me out from where I was. He saved me. As everyone says, everything happens according to for some reason, and God works in a mysterious way. He helped me." Jesse, the younger of the two brothers, said, "If Jack hadn't intervened, I would have grown up one of those guys on the street - without a job, without a diploma or something else, asking for change and all that.” Josh thinks they would died if Jack had not come to the rescue.

Now Jessie and Josh can finally do it with confidence look into the future. Josh even wants to join the army, like Jack, so become the same as Otsets.