{"id":2428,"date":"2011-06-18T14:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:33:52","slug":"spain-probes-849-cases-of-alleged-baby-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/spain-probes-849-cases-of-alleged-baby-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain probes 849 cases of alleged baby trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By HAROLD HECKLE
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Published: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 – 12:40 pm<\/div>\n
MADRID — 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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Candido Conde-Pumpido said 162 cases had already been referred for trial and only 38 have been dropped for a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n

It is well documented that babies were taken from women who had supported the defeated Republican side after Spain’s 1936-39 civil war. However, some of the baby trafficking cases are as recent as the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

„A great many Spaniards“ had been affected by the scandal, which took place „over a prolonged period of time,“ Conde-Pumpido said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

His office was alerted to the cases by ANADIR, an association of people searching for lost children or parents.<\/p>\n

Enrique Vila, a lawyer representing ANADIR, said what had begun as a politically motivated punishment for Republican sympathizers eventually became a purely moneymaking scheme that persisted illegally well past Spain’s return to democracy in 1978.<\/p>\n

Investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon<\/a> has calculated there could have been 30,000 baby thefts in Spain in the wake of the civil war.<\/p>\n

Vila has argued that there was more or less a nationwide network behind it, involving doctors, nurses, midwives, nuns and intermediaries that would find children for couples that wanted them. Mothers were told that their babies were stillborn.<\/p>\n

„It is not possible to attribute this to a single organization,“ said Conde-Pumpido, speaking in the eastern city of Valencia following a meeting with prosecutors general from Spain’s 17 autonomous regions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: http:\/\/www.sacbee.com By HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press Published: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 – 12:40 pm MADRID — 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… Weiter »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}