By Mail Foreign Service
A US man given up for adoption at birth has spoken of his anguish at discovering that his long-lost father is notorious serial killer Charles Manson.
Matthew Roberts said: "It was like finding out your father is Hitler".
The 41-year-old DJ made the discovery after tracing his mother and learning she had been raped by Manson during a drug-fuelled orgy nine months before he was born in 1968.
'I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian' Manson and his 'Family' of followers went on to commit nine murders in Los Angeles a year later.
Victims of the five-week killing rampage included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski.
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Speaking of the moment he realised Manson must be his father, Mr Roberts said: "I didn't want to believe it.
"I was frightened and angry. It's like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father.
"I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster."
He added: "My hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.
"I don't even kill bugs," he told The Sun.
Matthew, who grew up in Rockford, Illinois found out he was adopted when he was a ten-year-old schoolboy.
But it wasn't until he reached the age of 29 that he began to trace his family tree with the help of a search agency who found his biological mother Terry.
The pair began writing to each other and at first she refused to pass on details of his father.
Slowly, through a series of letters, the truth emerged.
His mother told him she had been captivated by Manson, who she met in 1967.
Ignoring the warnings of her father to steer clear, she joined him and other Manson Family cult members in San Francisco.
She claims she was raped by him during one of many drug-fuelled orgies and returned home pregnant. Matthew was born in 1968.
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