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The Spanish Baby Scandal ITV1 9pm tonight

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BlueBelle Tue 21-Jan-25 17:31:50

Didn’t t the Irish nuns in the work houses used to sometimes sell the babies to US etc ?

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TerriBull Tue 21-Jan-25 16:58:25

I'd also read that it went on during the Civil War. Similar happened in Argentina during the reign of terror under the Generals. The advent of DNA must have helped in reuniting stolen babies with their blood relatives.

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Indigo8 Tue 21-Jan-25 16:53:17

There is a documentary made in Germany on Youtube about this. A Spanish doctor who was responsible for stealing babies from women who had just delivered was finally brought to court in 2018 but not prosecuted as, under the statute of limitations, his crimes were seen as having happened too long ago.

It was said that, under Franco's regime, babies were taken from left wing families and given to right wing families to be "brought up properly". I don't know how much truth there was in this rumour.

It has been estimated that as many as 300,000 babies were abducted both during and ,for some time, after the end of the Franco regime.

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Barleyfields Tue 21-Jan-25 16:25:14

I thought this looked interesting. It’s about theft and trafficking of babies by nuns, priests and doctors and features two English women believe babies from their families may have been stolen. Apparently DNA will be used to help their search. I confess that I have never heard about this scandal so will be interested to watch it, but I think parts will be very upsetting.

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