35 Years After Being Dumped Like Trash As A Baby, She Found Out She Knew Her Birth Mom All Along

after one woman was dumped like a piece of trash as a newborn she always wondered who her birth mother was moreover she wanted to know how someone could do that to a tiny baby when she finally found her biological mom though she realized that she'd actually known her for a long time Janet barnico had an unusual start to life that's because in 1981 and shortly after she was born her mother abandoned her by a dumpster down a back alley in Lawndale California the new mom had swathe her daughter in a towel and placed her inside a paper bag all while the baby's umbilical cord was still joined to her little body luckily for Barna coat a woman had been cycling down the alleyway on her way to a local store and as she rode her bike by the dumpster she heard what she thought was a cat however when she investigated and peered inside the paper bag to her astonishment she found a newborn baby instead the woman handed the baby over to the authorities and eventually a couple adopted her her new home was in California but around 100 miles from the alley in its dumpster and after her adoption young Janet enjoyed a pretty normal childhood however after Barna coat had reached her teens she questioned the truth about her past and she found herself asking questions I got really mad and angry at my birth mother she revealed to the ABC news program 2020 in 2016 I held on to that for quite a long time throughout the years barnico often wondered who her parents were and if she had any brothers and sisters but eventually she felt that she had to put those thoughts to the back of her mind and continue with her life subsequently she entered the Navy had teamed up with her adoptive father as a partner in his barbershop business furthermore barnico Puente have five children of her own and after establishing her own family the fact that her mother had abandoned her like trash made even less sense to her once having my own children you know you figure out what that natural true love is and I just couldn't understand how she didn't have that for me she added to 20/20 so monokote decided she needed some answers and to do some digging into her past unfortunately she was unable to glean any information that could lead her to her birth parents while searching online however she did manage to find the woman who had discovered her in the alley undeterred by her mixed results barnico decided to submit a sample of her saliva to genealogy website ancestry.com and much to her surprise the DNA testing service the site provides matched her to a close family member it was her half-brother dean hahndorf born in 1986 who had also registered with the website and was based in Wisconsin with this news marna coat and hahndorf arranged a meet and the pair eventually reunited in November 2014 it was like we'd known each other forever like we never skipped a beat hahndorf later recalled to 20/20 meanwhile Barda code added it was a brother hug and going 30 years without having any siblings it was nice to have that connection in that bond moreover after the two struck up conversation barnico learned that hahndorf was awesome abandoned as a newborn he too still at his umbilical cord intact when a man found him on a doorstep AUSA Lin California and again in a paper bag and the shocking similarities in their circumstances made the pair more determined to track down their parents than ever before as a result the duo approached genetic genealogist Cece Moore to help more's forte is identifying abandoned children and happily she was able to cross-reference the siblings DNA samples against specimens from other databases that was how barnico tanned hahndorf came to learn that they had another half-sister Julie Hutchison living in Baltimore Hutchison was also found as a baby in California in 1985 and she had the same questions about her past as barnico tanned hahndorf furthermore although they all had different fathers DNA tests proved that they shared the same mother the trio subsequently came to believe then that it was their mom who dumped them all over a five-year period in the 80s in 2016 meanwhile these siblings all met up and discuss their pasts these three people were so much alike they had the same sense of humor they were cracking each other up Cece Moore said of that first meeting there's something about biological and genetic bonds that survives any sort of separation but although they had each other the threesome were still none the wiser as to the identity of the woman who had each given them life that conundrum was solved however when their birth mother finally came forward she was a lady called Joanne Hauser and amazingly barnico already knew her that's because as well as being her biological mom Hauser was the cyclist who had originally found Barna coat in that California alley Hauser later revealed that she had pretended to find her baby in a public place that way she could hand the newborn over to police without consequence I felt if someone else had her they could give her a better life than I could she explained to 20/20 at the time of Barna Coates birth Hauser already had two children from a failed marriage was living on welfare and found herself unable to cope with an additional baby it may not have helped either that she was deep in a party lifestyle back then then after abandoning Barna code Hauser fell pregnant twice more with Hutchison and then hahndorf each two different fathers both times she felt unable to look after another baby so dump them somewhere she was confident someone would find them safe but despite her actions Hauser said that she had loved and thought about her babies every single day sense and after discovering their kinship the three siblings are starting to get to know each other meanwhile both barnico and Hutchison have tracked down their biological fathers hahndorf however is still looking for his perhaps most amazingly of all though none of them feel any animosity towards Hauser she did us a favor barnico told CBS Los Angeles in 2016 all three of us had amazing families at the end we want to know your opinion about the story in the comments box below [Music]