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Families fight to find children stolen as infants in Spain
From Rock Center (NBC): Luis Vega is on a mission to meet every man born in Madrid, Spain on Nov. 20, 1977. That’s the day doctors told him that his baby son was stillborn, but he and his wife, Ines, believe their child was in fact stolen from the hospital. “We have a son somewhere out there,” Luis Vega said. [...]
Spain seeks truth on baby-trafficking claims
From The Guardian: The tearful stories swapped outside the Spanish attorney general’s office today were of nuns, priests and doctors trafficking in babies, of tiny corpses kept in fridges, of coffins without bodies and of mothers who only caught one fleeting glimpse of their newborn children. “My baby is not registered as having been born, [...]
Spain probes 849 cases of alleged baby trafficking
From The Sacramento Bee: Spanish prosecutors are investigating 849 cases of newborn children stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for profit, the country’s attorney general said Friday. Candido Conde-Pumpido said 162 cases had already been referred for trial and only 38 have been dropped for a lack of evidence. It is well [...]
Spain: Hundreds of babies ‘stolen from clinics and sold for adoption’
From The Guardian: Hundreds of Spanish babies were stolen from their parents by a secret network of doctors and nurses and sold for adoption, according to a petition filed in Madrid. The families of 261 babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals over five decades called on the attorney general to open an investigation into the [...]
Spain: 30,000 lost children of the Franco years are set to be saved from oblivion
From The Independent: “Did my child die or was he kidnapped?” is something no parent should ever have to ask, and still less so when the kidnappers are the government. But that is exactly the question hundreds of Spanish families are currently demanding that their courts resolve for once and for all about the so-called [...]
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