Despite the staggering numbers and the fact that these cases are spread across Spain, prosecutors say they don't believe it was a "baby mafia," but a macabre business involving public and private hospitals, doctors, nurses, midwives and even nuns who wanted to make money. Typically, doctors and nuns would tell mothers their babies had been born dead, or that they had died shortly after birth, Barroso said. Then they would sell the newborns to adoptive parents and forge all official documents. After being told their newborns died, mothers would usually request to see their children, but doctors and midwives would deter them.Some adoptive mothers were told to fake pregnancies by putting pillows under their clothes and some fed lies. According to one man who has since reliazed he was victim of this scam, the nun told his "adoptive" mother that his biological mother was a drug addict who did not want to keep him. “My adoptive parents thought they were doing something legal, and that the money went for the documents, doctors, and so on,” he said. No one has been arrested or charged since cops began investigating this case two years ago.
source: Global Post
Monday, October 3, 2011
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