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Two mountain lions that were orphaned as cubs have been released back into the San Diego County wilderness.

In recent years it has even recruited thousands of orphans and street children, the report claims.

In some cases the children were falsely recorded as orphans, or their identities changed, making tracing them - then and now - all the more difficult.

He was later orphaned and immigrated to the North American colonies in 1772.

The sisters' father, Mohammed Maroof, was born in Kerala but was adopted by his grandmother after he was orphaned at the age of nine.