Biological Father Of Barahona Twins Speaks Out

MIAMI (CBS4) - For the first time on camera, CBS4 is hearing from the biological father of two 10-year-old twins who were abused and discovered off I-95 in West Palm Beach inside a pesticide truck belonging to their adoptive father, Jorge Barahona.

Nubia was found inside a bag and did not survive; her twin, Victor, had been badly burned with chemicals.

"I don't like them, of course not," said Victor Bustillo, the twins' biological father. "I don't like what they did to my children. That's all I can say.

"I feel horrible," Bustillo told CBS4's Peter D'Oench. "It's painful. It's hard. This hurts. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe."

The 51-year-old Bustillo said he never trusted the Barahonas.

"When somebody else takes care of your children, you have a bad feeling that they are not going to take care of them as you would."

Bustillo had sole custody of the children after the Department of Children and Families found that his ex-wife Sandra Kay Docter had drug and alcohol problems and was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend.

Then Bustillo lost custody, when his children were just toddlers, after he was arrested for kissing and fondling another child.

"I got arrested and they took away my children," Butillo said. "And I ended up in jail until I could take care of the problems."

Bustillo said he had not heard anything about his children until the latest news reports surfaced on TV. He has not seen his biological children in eight years.

DCF dismissed four reports that Nubia was being abused and neglected by the Barahonas. But Bustillo does not blame DCF.

"Under the law," said Bustillo, "they did what they have to do. They did what they did and had to do."

Bustillo said he prays that steps will be taken to better protect children.

"I hope this never happens to anybody," said Bustillo. "Just the fact that something happened to my children is painful. I'd like to say to my Nubia and my Victor, I love them. I love Victor and Nubia, I do."

Bustillo said he hoped to be able to attend Nubia's funeral service; and he hoped there would be some way that he could make contact with 10-year-old Victor.

He said that he is legally not allowed to see his son until he reaches the age of 18.

Victor is still recovering inside the burn unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Parents at Nubia's school are also heartbroken by the case. One mother who doesn't want to be identified told CBS 4's Tiffani Helberg that she is trying to organize a fundraising effort to pay for Nubia's funeral. She's also planning a memorial service for her.

"We want her to be treated better than she was treated in life," said the mom.

She remembered Nubia's smile as she would walk the halls of the school everyday.

"We hugged them everyday her and her brother. We saw them laugh we saw them smile we saw them cry every single day," she recalled.

The mom is also working on making a memory book for Victor so that he will be able to reminisce about his sister.

"We want him to know that there's a whole batallion of us out there who care for him, who care for his sister," she said.  "We want  him to know that he was loved, that he is loved and that is sister was loved as well. So that way as he grows through this he can have some kind of peace knowing that yes we're out there that he's not alone."