Amnesia victim rescue

Jet, Feb 28, 2005

AMNESIA VICTIM RESCUE: Stacy Maceachern (r) looks at "Tee" in her Weymouth, MA, home. She has been taking care of him since he lost his memory after suffering a head injury Jan. 12. The man, who appears to be in his late teens, was found dazed in a dirty snow bank on a street corner in the city's Mattapan section and brought to a hospital for treatment of his head injury.

After he was treated, he was sent to a homeless shelter where he was robbed of his last $80 within hours of arriving, so he returned to the hospital, but was told they had no place for him. During the time he spent in the psychiatric unit there, the man befriended another patient and called her for help. She called her sister, Maceachern, who invited the man to stay at her Weymouth home until his memory returns or his loved ones come forward. "I just want to have my memory back. I hope someone is looking for me," he said.