February 14, 2006
Good News: A grandchild found
Not all news in the human rights world are negative. Today the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced that they found another of their lost grandchildren. Sebastián is the son of Gaspar Onofre Casado and Adriana Leonor Tasca who were disappeared in 1977 when Adriana was 5 months pregnant.
Sebastián was born while Adriana was at a concentration camp and was handed by a military officer to a couple he knew and who registered the baby as their own. Sebastian had question about his true identity, however, and he contacted the Grandmothers. DNA tests have just confirmed his true identity.
82 children have been reunited with their birth families since the Grandmothers started their struggle. Many more continue disappeared.
I congratulate Sebastian's grandmother, Ángela Barili de Tasca and the whole Casado-Tasca family