They left him with a teacher and 33 years later he is looking for his biological mother

A baby was abandoned in the garden of the house of Alcira Todisco, a 46-year-old teacher. He was less than 24 hours old, he still had the umbilical cord.

The teacher and her sister Edith found the child thanks to a warning: “It looks like they left you something,” a neighbor told Alcira on the night of May 8, 1989.

The baby’s crying surprised them. He was naked and he was hungry. Edith picked him up off the floor and they both took him inside to give him formula.

Alcira, says Infobae, was the mother of Marcelo, an adopted child, who was 6 years old until now.

The Todisco sisters called a friendly doctor to evaluate the little one. He found him in good condition and announced that “he was not born in a sanitarium or hospital.”

The man who found his biological mother 58 years after he was given up for adoption

What to do with the abandoned baby

That night, at her home in Azara 1200, Banfield, Buenos Aires province, as she watched the newborn, she thought several times whether to stay with him or take him to the authorities to ask for adoption.

The teacher chose to go the legal route and the next day “turned him over to Lomas de Zamora Juvenile Court No. 3, where she asked to give him up for adoption.”

There they opened two files: “one, number 300, to find out the circumstances of the abandonment, which came to nothing. The other, 620, for the adoption of the child. In the afternoon, the teacher filed a complaint with the second police station.

From that moment on, 33 years have passed and Miss Alcira still feels that the little one has lost her hair.

A judge told me they would give it to me and the police officers took it out of my hands (…) I wanted it and I would have raised it very well, he told Infobae.

The child has been adopted by another family. They’ve been on the list before.

What’s with that kid?

That child that the teacher has taken care of is called Matias Hernan Martinez.

Leonardo Ariel Martínez Verdier (now 73 years old) and Filomena María Mellino (78) adopted him. “They are my parents and that will never change,” says Matías from Argentina.

Thank God I fell into a good family who could give me everything.

In those years Martínez worked for the Ministry of Economic Affairs; his wife, at the Central Bank.

Matías knows how he got to Alcira’s house and then to the one he calls mom and dad today.

Knowing that Alcira wanted to adopt him, he points out: But you can’t say ‘Give it to me, it’s mine’, and they sent her to sign up on a list, but my parents were there before.

Documents stated that the little boy would go to Grandma Blanca’s house at 1200 Monteros Street, half a block from Larroque, a central avenue in West Banfield… 18 blocks from where Alcira lived.

Matías met Alcira. Grandma Blanca recently passed away, Filomena, the mother, asked her if she wanted to see the teacher. He replied in the negative.

Some time later they saw each other. They hugged on May 15, 2014. They have not contacted each other since.

Find your biological mother

Matías is a journalist and, like Leonardo, works at the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

He lives with Marta, his second wife. From his first marriage he had a daughter, who died of natural causes 12 days after birth.

It is Marta who encourages him to look for his birth mother. He has kept that desire “forever”, he confesses to Infobae.

With this subject, he says in no small measure that he has “a thorn in his side.” You want to know at least the name of who gave birth to you.

I’d like to find her and ask her why she left me… to talk without second thoughts.

What do you know about who gave birth to him?

According to Infobae, when Matías was born, the teacher Alcira worked at school 44 in Villa Fiorito and at 49, for adults, in Banfield, on Larroque Avenue in 1200.

Four and a half blocks from the house of Blanca, Matías’ grandmother.

According to Alcira, “there was a girl who was a student at the school and she didn’t see her anymore, she disappeared overnight. When she asked about it, they told her she was three months pregnant and to avoid trouble she left.

She says she can’t remember the name, although she has two more important facts: the young woman attended School 49 and was Paraguayan.