It is believed that up to 15,000 babies were stolen and sold on Gomez's watch. She is the first to take the stand, there are also doctors and other nurses involved, and wouldn't you know it...she chose to not incriminate herself (that's the fifth, right). Distraught mothers have gone to graves and dug up the coffins only to find...they're empty, yo. The government is offering DNA tests to, hopefully, reunite the children and their parents. Reluctantly, the government admitted that a conviction will be very difficult that is why they are offering the tests.
Gee wiz Beav, where have we seen this scenario where the Catholic church decides that single mothers are filthy sinners and it is in the best interest of the child to be stolen from the biological mother and raised in a traditional home. I dunno, Ireland, Australia, USA, Peru and now Spain.
Hey, it the Three Stooges. |
"...a single mother or a married woman who already had several children gave birth to an apparently healthy child, but was soon told — often by a nun who worked as a nurse — that the baby had died. Although the adoptive parents frequently paid significant amounts of money for their child, ideology more than greed appears to have been behind the thefts. "These are nuns and priests who strongly believed that the child would be better off with a more traditional or more 'moral,' family," explains journalist Natalia Junquera, who has led the newspaper El País's investigation of the thefts. "They honestly thought they were doing the right thing."
"After the delivery she told me my daughter had died," Torres told the press. "Then she said that the baby had been given to another family. And she threatened me that if I didn't go along with it, she would tell the authorities that I was an adultres , and they would take away my other child as well."
(Thanks Time Magazine)
* Article Spains Stolen babies.
* Forced sterilization in Peru.
* The Australian Baby Giveaway
* Banished Babies in Ireland
* Fo sho there are more instances of Catholic baby stealing, but you get the picture.
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