In January 2003, the New York Times featured as one of its annual 100 neediest cases an 11-year-old boy who had been born with what a judge would later describe as “devastating bodily deformities” but who nevertheless was “personable, charming, well spoken, and displays remarkable fortitude and grace in coping with and overcoming his physical disabilities.”
Attorney Kathryn O. Greenberg was moved enough by the story to donate a specially equipped motorized wheelchair without which Roy W. Lantigua Jr. could only drag himself along the floor.
