06-01-2012, 12:54 PM
how sad
NYDaily News
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Janice Poppo DiBello couldn’t remember the father who abandoned her at age 2.
The New Jersey woman was stunned Thursday to discover her absentee dad was the homeless man victimized last weekend by a flesh-eating Florida madman who gnawed away most of his features.
“I’m really upset because I haven’t met my father,” the 44-year-old woman told the Daily News while walking her family dog near their Morris County home.
“Since I was 2 years old, him and my mom got divorced and there was no — like how normal divorces are, where you see your father,” Poppo DiBello continued from behind a pair of sunglasses. “Nobody ever heard anything from him, so I’ve never met him.
“I didn’t know if he was alive or dead.”
After The News found Poppo DiBello, she called her mother to confirm the details about the victim — and her parent did just that.
“It was a complete shock, because like I said, I’ve never had a relationship with my biological father,” the IT analyst said. “I have never heard from him. I have no idea what happened to him.”
Poppo dropped out of college in late 1966, two years before daughter Janice was born. He disappeared from her life for good two years later after a divorce that left a still-bitter taste in his ex-wife’s mouth.
“I have nothing to say,” said Theresa Chesler, now living in the Catskills. “We were divorced, probably in 1970. And nobody’s heard from him since then.”
NYDaily News
Janice Poppo DiBello couldn’t remember the father who abandoned her at age 2.
The New Jersey woman was stunned Thursday to discover her absentee dad was the homeless man victimized last weekend by a flesh-eating Florida madman who gnawed away most of his features.
“I’m really upset because I haven’t met my father,” the 44-year-old woman told the Daily News while walking her family dog near their Morris County home.
“Since I was 2 years old, him and my mom got divorced and there was no — like how normal divorces are, where you see your father,” Poppo DiBello continued from behind a pair of sunglasses. “Nobody ever heard anything from him, so I’ve never met him.
“I didn’t know if he was alive or dead.”
After The News found Poppo DiBello, she called her mother to confirm the details about the victim — and her parent did just that.
“It was a complete shock, because like I said, I’ve never had a relationship with my biological father,” the IT analyst said. “I have never heard from him. I have no idea what happened to him.”
Poppo dropped out of college in late 1966, two years before daughter Janice was born. He disappeared from her life for good two years later after a divorce that left a still-bitter taste in his ex-wife’s mouth.
“I have nothing to say,” said Theresa Chesler, now living in the Catskills. “We were divorced, probably in 1970. And nobody’s heard from him since then.”