JANUARY 26, 1988
PEDRO DOES NOT HAVE ANY LITTLE BROTHERS OR SISTERS IN THE CASA HOGAR, BUT HE LOVES ALL THE LITTLE CHILDREN AS IF THEY WERE HIS FAMILY. HIS OWN FAMILY DISINTEGRATED WHEN HE WAS THREE OR FOUR YEARS OLD, WHEN HIS MOTHER ABONDONED HIM AND HIS FATHER, TAKING TWO OF HIS BROTHERS. SHE NEVER RETURNED TO SEE THEM.
BECAUSE HIS FATHER IS AN ALCOHOLIC, SOME DAYS HE WORKS AND SOME DAYS HE DOES NOT. AS PEDRO DID NOT HAVE ANYONE TO TAKE CARE OF HIM, HE TOOK TO THE STREETS, FIGHTING AND LOSING RESPECT FOR HIS ELDERS. HE BEGAN TO BEG FOR FOOD AND MONEY FROM PEOPLE IN THE STREETS.
WHILE HIS FATHER WAS LOSING HIMSELF IN ALCOHOL, PEDRO JOINED ONE OF HIS LITTLE BROTHERS THAT WAS LIVING IN THE STREET AND WAS SLEEPING IN AN ABANDONED HOUSE. THE MEXICAN SOCIAL SERVICE PICKED THEM UP FROM THE STREET AND PUT THEM IN A HOME IN TECOMAN, MEXICO, WHERE HIS CONDUCT WAS SO BAD THAT THE OTHER CHILDREN ATTACKED HIM AND HE FLED FROM THIS HOME. FROM THERE HE CAME TO THE CASA HOGAR, WHERE WE HAVE SEEN HIM CHANGE FROM THE FIRST DAY THAT HE ARRIVED. HE IS OBEDIENT AND A GOOD WORKER AND HAS NEVER LEFT THE CASA HOGAR.