Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: La Chiesa cattolica e il commercio di bambini

Non so se i media italiani vi hanno informato dell'orrido network che
sta venendo alla luce in Spagna.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/09/spanish-mothers-seek-stolen-children.html
MADRID: In November 1967, Amparo Gonzalez was 18 when she woke up in a
Madrid maternity ward to hear her baby had been still born and buried
in a common grave.
Now she is convinced her child was one of thousands snatched during
the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
“At the time, it was really frowned on for a single woman to have a
baby,” said Gonzalez, now 62 with two other children.
“The first question the sisters asked when I got to the clinic was:
‘What do you plan to do with the baby?’,” she recalled.
The day after giving birth under anaesthesia, the clinic informed the
young mother her baby was dead. “We sent it to the cemetery,” where
babies were buried in common graves, she was told.
“It was impossible to get back,” Gonzalez said.
Only after threatening legal action did she obtain a death certificate
and a birth certificate, and they were full of contradictions. The
dates don’t match and the cause of death is not the same.
Enrique Vila, lawyer for the Anadir association of baby trafficking
victims, said Amparo was a perfect target: “A woman of modest
background, who they knew did not have the means to start legal
proceedings.”
There are no clear numbers on the victims: estimates range from
hundreds to tens of thousands of cases of child snatching during the
1939-75 dictatorship and up to the end of the 1980s.
Children of jailed left-wing opponents were stolen from their mothers
with state approval and often the blessing of the Roman Catholic
Church to purge Spain of Marxist influence.
A 1940 decree allowed the state to take children into custody if their
“moral education” was at risk.
Historians say many of the “lost children” were put in Catholic
religious orders and became nuns or priests while others were
illegally adopted by other families — usually supporters of the regime
— with changed identities.
The practice continued even after Franco’s death as an illegal
business that provided babies for cash to women unable to give birth.
In many cases, according to Anadir, new mothers were told their babies
had died suddenly within hours of birth and the hospital had taken
care of their burials when in fact they were given to another family.
Often the babies’ identities were faked and they appeared as blood
relatives in documents. Sometimes the future mothers pretended in
public to be pregnant before buying their baby.
Carmen Torres, born in 1968, is still looking for her twin sister,
Susana.
“After 16 days in an incubator they told my parents she was dead, that
she had been buried in Almudena cemetery,” the largest burial ground
in Madrid, she said.
“She is not on the cemetery registry,” Torres said.
As if a pact of silence had been broken, witnesses to the trade in
children now seem to be cropping up across the media and on social
networks.
“I thought I was an isolated case but I realise that there are lots of
others,” said Rocio Garcia, born in 1980, who is convinced she was a
stolen child after discovering her parents paid a “clinic” for her
adoption.
“They told me they had made a ‘gift’ of 50,000 pesetas to a sister,”
said the young woman who does not believe their version of events.
People still find it hard to speak about matters related to Franco,
especially since the buyers in this case came from influential
families, said Zaragoza University modern history professor Julian
Casanovas.
The illegal trade flourished in a vacuum even after Franco’s death
until the first adoption law came into force in 1987, he said.
Francoism “was very marked by corruption and all this is just the
follow-on of what existed during the dictatorship,” Casanovas said.
Today the legal investigations are just beginning.
And there is a glimmer of hope for other victims: in December a mother
in Barcelona was reunited with her daughter after having been told in
1970 she had died in a clinic.
The daughter hired detectives who traced her biological mother and
proved the connection with a DNA test. They have asked not to be
identified.

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vedi anche l'articolo de El Pais. Solo per stomaci molto forti.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/How/Spain/s/stolen/children/network/exported/babies/elpepueng/20110323elpeng_1/Ten

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