Emotional moment disabled boy who's waited 16 years for adoption finds out he's got a new family

The heartwarming infinitesimal that a disabled Arkansas boy recovered retired helium had a caller household aft spending astir 17 years successful a foster attraction installation was captured connected video.

Jose, 17, who suffered from shaken babe syndrome astatine the hands of his caregiver, has spent the past 6,183 days successful the state's foster attraction strategy aft his biologic household placed him successful a 24-hour attraction installation and began to wantonness him erstwhile helium was conscionable 1-year-old, WJTV reported.

But video footage captured cheering, clapping and crying wrong the walls of the Ninth West Judicial Circuit Court and the Arkansas Department of Human Services league country aft a justice yet declared his archetypal authoritative adoption connected Thursday.

Dr. Mary Zhang initially stepped into Jose's beingness with the volition of advocating for his aesculapian needs since helium suffered terrible encephalon harm - leaving him mostly paralyzed, verbally and visually impaired and having to devour done a feeding tube.

'He's lived his full beingness successful a facility,' Zhang told KARK 4 News successful tears. 'Like I mean, however bash you?'

The touching footage showed Zhang and her husband, Patrick Sullivan, lasting successful beforehand of the justice portion declaring their emotion for Jose, noting that helium was an answered prayer.

Although helium volition person to stay successful the installation for around-the-clock care, the longest-waiting kid successful the Arkansas foster strategy is present perpetually visited, supported and loved by his caller family.

'When we look into his eyes and hitch his face, helium knows that we emotion him,' Zhang added.