Juan Enrique Reggiardo Oldani
Desaparecido Febrero 9, 1977
From the Desaparecidos Memory WallJuan Enrique and Maria Rosa were both 24. They were married. Juan worked and María Rosa studied architecture. When she was kidnapped, Maria Rosa was six months pregnant.
On February 8, 1977 a task force (seized) from his home in Florencio Varela Antonia Oldani, Juan’s mother. The next morning, Juan was taken out of the factory Hemigraf of Lanús Este, where he worked, by a group of armed men. That same day, Maria Rosa was abducted while waiting for a bus in a location between Sarandi and Lanus.
The couple was taken to the Clandestine Detention Center "The Cacha." Maria Rosa was taken from "The Cacha” to give birth and taken to the maternity Olmos prison. On May 16, 1977 she gave birth to twins: Javier Gonzalo and Matías Angel. Maria Rosa was treated by a medical midwife named Mary Hilda Delgadillo, who reported the birth to the bishop of La Plata, Monsignor Plaza. Delgadillo and her husband were arrested and disappeared days later. Maria Rosa was not returned to "The Cacha" and her fate is unknown. A guard informed about the twins. The children were appropriated by the Deputy Commissioner Samuel Miara and listed as their own. Juan was "transferred."
To avoid prosecution, Deputy Commissioner Miara fled to Paraguay with the children but was extradited and DNA tests showed that his children were really the children of Juan Enrique and Maria Rosa. Although the twins were identified in 1989 it was not until 1993 that the Ministry of Justice gave the children back their identity and they were returned to their biological family.
With the interference of strangers in this case, and the violent campaign that broke out in the media against returning the missing children, the relationship between the children and the mother’s family was strained. To come of age, the twins, Gonzalo and Matías, lived with a foster family.
They currently maintain contact with the biological family and know the truth of this story.
Their parents are still missing.
A month and a half before the kidnapping of Maria Rosa, her husband and his mother, on December 20, 1976, a task force ambushed and killed Claudio Tolosa, Maria Rosa’s brother, on the corner of 35th & 10th in La Plata.