He was born and thrown into the garbage, but he survived and met his rescuers

Mark Wallace was 20 years old when he first saw his birth certificate. He was the son of a woman he had never seen. He tried to learn at least something about his biological mother in the New York Public Library. Curiosity was replaced by shock.

An employee of the library found the story of 1985 of the year when 21, a year-old student at Fairley Dickinson University in New Jersey, gave birth to a boy in a dorm room, put a newborn in a trash bag, tied up and threw the trash can behind a gas station. A newborn could die from suffocation or freeze.

Wallace is now 31 a year, and he lives in Brooklyn. After this turn of events, the man continued to search for answers.

He sought out a reporter who wrote this article in a newspaper, and he helped organize the meeting of three men who took part in saving the newborn.

They told him how it was.

On the morning of 1985 of the year, 25-year-old Randelman was returning from a friend around 3 at night and stopped at a gas station not far from his house to pump the wheels. At the station I decided to go to the toilet. The bathroom was very dirty, so the guy went behind the dumpster to dispense.

“I heard crying,” Randelman said. “I lifted the lid of the tank, but all I saw was garbage.”

He called the station operator Lo Go-Raya. They concluded that the child was inside the trash can, but could not see it. Randelman called the police.

Officers Phillip Lavigne and Sheridan Ogden arrived a minute later. “At first we thought it was a cat,” recalls Ogden. Lavin climbed inside, trying not to step on a black bag that was different from other garbage. He tore it up and found a naked newborn with a umbilical cord and placenta.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes that someone could give up a living child like that,” said Lavigne, whose wife was pregnant at the time.

Lavigne held the child in front of his chest while Ogden raced at a speed of 128 km / h towards St. Nicholas Hospital. Then the doctors urgently set about examining the newborn.

“You made it just in time,” one doctor told police.

“You are my hero,” Wallace told Michael Randelman, who traveled from Florida for the occasion. Lavigne gave Wallace a police cap and a police badge.

“This is the best Christmas gift for me,” Lavigne said, referring to the meeting.

Wallace didn't stop there. He continued to learn his story.

It turned out there was a note in Greek in the bag: “I love you. I didn't want to do that. ”

“I never saw my mother,” Wallace said. The first photo that gave him an idea of ​​her was in a yellowed newspaper in the library. Photo from the court. She is wearing a beautiful brunette in a white blouse. Wallace bears a striking resemblance to her.

Ballas, Wallace's biological mother, told the police that she was hiding her pregnancy from family, friends, and her former boyfriend, who was the father of the child. She gave birth to a child and, panicked, threw it away.

Wallace's father at that time was 22, and they had just parted with Ballas. In an interview with a reporter, he told 2 a month after the incident that he did not know about her pregnancy. He asked if she was pregnant, and received an answer: “I just gained weight.”

He believed that Ballas did so, as she was afraid of disapproval of her strict Greek Orthodox parents.

Ballas pleaded guilty to attempted murder. "I had a baby. I put it in a bag,” she said in a whisper in court. She also said that the child lay in the trash for about 90 minutes before he was found. She was given a suspended sentence without being sent to prison.

Ballas' parents decided to adopt Wallace, but the court gave custody to his father, Prithvi from Trinidad, an island in the Caribbean.
The father swore to keep Wallace's story a secret. “I don’t want my son to find out,” he said in a 1985 interview.

Wallace grew up in Trinidad with his father's sister and grandmother. “I called her mommy,” he said of his aunt. “I still love her like a mother.” She took care of me like her child."

Wallace returned to the United States when he was 16. He has 2 younger sisters. But, despite a life full of love and joy, he said that he always felt emptiness.

For many years, Wallace tried to find Ballas. He learned that Ballas had married a Greek, had 2 children, and moved to Rhode Island.

Wallace sent her a message on the phone, but she did not answer.

“She's still my mother. She put up with me for the full term,” he said. “I have nothing but love for this woman.” I am very grateful that I can be a loving father to my little girl."

Wallace said he hopes to meet his mom someday. He is determined to tell her: "I forgive you."

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