After news of an 11-year-old boy in Colombia taking care of his three younger siblings all by himself was made known in 2016, he was hailed a hero.
The boy, named Juan Pablo, and his younger brothers, never knew who their father was. They were raised single-handedly by their mother until the day she disappeared. Juan waited and waited for his mother to return home, but she never did. He was left to come to terms with the reality that his mother might have abandoned them, or perhaps something drastic may have befallen her.
