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A tangled web: stealing newborns in twentieth-century Spain

Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden

“We were Europe’s baby supermarket and babies were stolen for sixty years.”1

— Inés Madrigal

Twentieth-century Spain was a politically unstable, highly divided nation. In 1931, King Alfonso XIII abdicated after the results of elections were interpreted as a plebiscite on abolishing the monarchy.2

What followed was “one weak government after another.”3

In 1936, with a socialist coalition governing Spain, “army leaders, backed by some of the country’s wealthiest families, decided they…had enough of democracy, and more than enough of socialism.”4

Army general Francisco Franco (1892–1975) was chosen to lead the revolt.

The resulting civil war (1936–1939) was a manifestation of the divisions in Spain. The legal, socialist government (the “Republicans”) was supported by party-line communists, Trotskyites, anarchists, socialists,

and some low-level Catholic clergy. The rebels (the “Nationalists”) consisted of the Spanish army, large landowners, and the Catholic church hierarchy. The Republicans got support from international volunteers, Mexico,

and the Soviet Union. The Nationalists were supported by ground and air forces of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

Half a million people died in the war. Of these, 20% (100,000) were killed in battle. The remaining 400,000 died in air raids or from executions or disease.5 The Republicans (called “Reds” by their enemies)

confiscated church property and killed about 10,000 bishops, priests, nuns, and monks.6 The Nationalists (“Fascists”) imprisoned and often murdered anyone who did not demonstrate Nationalist sympathies.

Providing food to a Republican fighter could result in a long prison term.

After the Nationalist victory in 1939, the ruling party found other ways of punishing opponents and preventing children from “inheriting” anti-government ideas from their parents.

Pregnant woman who were Republican sympathizers, socialists, atheists, or unmarried, were considered “degenerate.” They could not be good mothers, and their newborns needed to be adopted into “better” families.7

Some women were heavily sedated at the time of delivery and then told that their (liveborn) baby had been born dead. Other women saw and heard their newborns, who were then taken “to see the doctor,”

and were later told that their baby died of a congenital anomaly.

Some women delivered twins but were told that they gave birth to a singleton, and that they must have been confused.

Parents were forbidden to see their “dead” child. The San Ramón Maternity Hospital kept a frozen newborn cadaver to show parents who insisted on seeing their child. One mother, decades later,

recalled how her “newly dead” infant was ice-cold. The parents were not permitted to be at the infant’s burial. Some of these infants’ coffins, exhumed decades later, contained stones or adult remains.8

This happened in maternity hospitals across Spain. The participants in this conspiracy were doctors, nuns, midwives, and priests. It has been estimated that as many as 300,000 babies were stolen from their parents.9

These babies were then sold to prospective adoptive parents. This criminal activity, which started in 1939, may have continued until the 1980s,10 1990,11 or 1999.12

The adoptive parents were told that the baby had been left at an orphanage without any information (sin datos) about their origins.

One gynecologist admitted destroying any records before the child was sold to the adoptive parents. He was tried in 2018 and was found guilty of kidnapping and falsifying birth records.

The statute of limitations on his crimes had expired, and he received no penalty.13

The Spanish public has been aware of this national scandal since 2012, when several men, “adopted” as babies, learned the truth behind their adoptions.

Spanish law limits access to birth records until the patient (the woman who delivered) has been dead for at least twenty-five years.14

The story of stolen babies is not unique to Spain. Nazi Germany kidnapped 200,000 Aryan-looking Polish children to be adopted by German parents.15

Illegal removals and adoptions have taken place in China, Ethiopia, Chad, India, Guatemala,16 Australia,17 Canada,18 Norway, Sweden, Finland,19 and the US.20

https://hekint.org/2022/04/25/a-tangled-web-stealing-newborns-in-twentieth-century-spain/

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>>20789631

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The Catholic Church Stole 300,000 Babies And Sold Them To The Highest Bidder

Jacob Shelton Updated August 16, 2018

The Catholic Church is no stranger to scandal. They’ve attempted to systematically wipe out entire religions, and covered numerous sex crimes committed within their church,

but one of the most unforgivable things the Catholic Church has ever done has been to take part in Spanish baby trafficking.

Throughout the 20th century the Spanish arm of the Catholic Church would steal newborn babies from their mothers and sell them to the highest bidder. As far as church scandals go this is pretty high up there.

Not only is this behavior absolutely abhorrent, it’s also in direct opposition to their faith. This Spanish child kidnapping rite, like so many Catholic Church crimes,

proves that the people who rise to the highest places of power within organized religion care less about humanity are more about grabbing as much money and dominance as they possible can.

Keep reading to discover the truth behind the truly insane rumor that the Catholic Church sells stolen babies.

The Accused Didn't Face Charges Until 2018

Even though victims Juan Luis Moreno and Antonio Barroso brought the issue to light in 2011, it wasn't until August 2018 that alleged perpetrators faced charges.

Inés Madrigal, born in 1969 at San Ramon clinic in Madrid, claims a doctor kidnapped her and gave her away without her biological mother's permission. On August 14, 2018, her accused kidnapper,

obstetrician Eduardo Vela, stood trial and denied the allegations, telling a three-judge panel that he "never gave a girl to anybody." In 2012, Madrigal's adoptive mother (who passed in 2016) told CNN Vela gave her the baby.

The judges charged Vela with the illegal detention of a minor and forging a public document. Prosecutors are pushing for an 11-year jail sentence. Vela still denies "stealing" Madrigal and is pursuing a full acquittal.

Over 2,000 people filed stolen children suits with prosecutors.

It All Began In Post-War Spain

Following the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) General Francisco Franco became the head of the rebel Nationalist government and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

Under his rule Spain became a hermit nation similar to that of modern day North Korea. Anyone who fought against the Nationalists during the war or who held opposing viewpoints were punished -

this includes anyone who wanted to have a child. These people were known as "undesirables" and Franco believed that anyone with an opposing viewpoint or who lived beneath a specific wage line wasn't fit to raise a child.

The task of taking babies away from single mothers and families who didn't fit into Franco's idea of ideal citizens was given to a network of Catholic priests and nuns who did their jobs efficiently and without asking any questions.

The Church Stole The Babies Shortly After They Were Born

Rather than snatch babies from cribs at night, the Catholic Church went straight to the source when they decided to kidnap children.

Directly after childbirth many babies were whisked away under the guise of routine testing and later their mothers were told that the baby had died.

One mother who experienced this first hand explained to the BBC that she fell for this trick because she had been raised to believe that the church was infallible and that they would have no reason to lie to her.

"I couldn't accuse them of lying. This was Franco's Spain. A dictatorship. Even now we Spaniards tend not to question authority."

Many of the mothers who asked to see their child after hearing that it had passed away claim that they were shown the corpse of a child who had been frozen, or that was freezing cold.

The Babies Were Sold To Well-To-Do Families

After the newborns were stolen from their mothers most of them were immediately sold to couples who held beliefs more inline with Franco's totalitarian and Catholic regime.

These families didn't just have the "right" set of core beliefs - they were also wealthy. Or at the very least they had enough money to buy a child in post World War II Spain.

It's likely that the adoptive parents weren't aware that they were buying a child that had been stolen from its mother hours before, and many of the parents actually had their names placed on the child's birth certificate.

Allegedly the families were either led to believe that the infant's mother had died in child birth or that the parents had given them up.

https://www.ranker.com/list/catholic-church-trafficked-stollen-babies-spain/jacob-shelton

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This Wasn't A Small Time Operation

It may seem like it would be tough to carry out a country-wide, state-sanctioned, web of church backed kidnapping; but that's where you're wrong.

These kidnappings started directly after the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, continued through World War II, and didn't end until the early '90s.

Spain may be a relatively small country but it must have been noticeable to someone that children were disappearing at an alarming rate.

Maybe people who brought up the numbers were squashed by the local government, or it's possible that the Franco's regime simply didn't care if they were called out on their horrible crimes.

Whatever the case many people believe that this web of Catholic kidnapping accounted for 15% of the total adoptions that took place in Spain between 1960 and 1989.

Priests Were Helping People Fake Pregnancies

When you think of the Catholic church stealing children and selling them to the highest bidder, you might imagine a nun running down a hallway with a baby, freshly ripped from its mother, and handing it off to the highest bidder.

Well, that definitely happened a few times, but in many cases the church prepped parents for their child and helped them fake a pregnancy to keep friends and family from asking questions.

Speaking to the BBC, an 89-year-old woman named Ines Perez admitted that a priest helped her work out a fake pregnancy before she received a baby girl in 1969. She said, "The priest gave me padding to wear on my stomach."

How To Sneak A Baby Out Of A Maternity Ward

Even though the Catholic church was working in tandem with Spain's government it still shouldn't have been so easy to steal a bunch of babies. Many priests and nuns who carried out the thefts went through a ridiculous series of steps to ensure that they weren't caught.

Priests and nuns would first falsify a birth certificate stating that the child had been born to the family who was paying for the baby, and then they would usually concoct a lie about why they were handing off such a small child before pushing the family out of the hospital -

thus decreasing the risk of anyone being caught. One woman who received a baby from the Catholic church claims that she was told her adopted child was born premature, but that in reality it had probably just been born moments before.

She claims that the doctor told her to put the baby in her car "between two hot water bottles."

The Payment Plan

In many cases even when a family could afford to buy a child they couldn't pay for it all up front so a payment plan was established.

When Juan Luis Moreno's father confessed on his deathbed that Moreno had been purchased from a priest he realized that his annual family trips to Zaragoza weren't vacations - they were a contractual obligation.

Moreno told the BBC that his adoptive father knew exactly what he was doing and that the church didn't even try to hide its scam. "My dad was given a choice: boy or girl.

They put it bluntly: This was a market for babies." Moreno said that his adoptive father claims that the going price for a child at the time was twice the price of their family home.

No One Is Going To Get In Trouble For This

Despite believing that what they were doing was for the greater good of the Spanish people, General Franco and his regime knew it was wrong.

After Franco's death a series of amnesty laws were passed so that any crimes that took place while he was in power would never be examined in a court of law.

Some prosecutors have decided to look into the thefts on a case-by-case basis, but that's easier said than done.

While there are some cases to go through, many children who were kidnapped and sold to families have decided not to come forward for fear their adoptive parents are seen as criminals. One person, a nun named Sister Maria Gomez,

was brought to court for kidnapping but she refused to speak in court.

It's Almost Impossible To Prosecute This Insane Crime

Aside from the lack of political will to prosecute for the crime, it is incredibly hard to prove in court the illegality of the case.

A prosecutor in Madrid pointed out a few of the biggest issues with trying to prove wrongdoing in a case of systemic kidnapping.

First, you can't pursue a criminal case over a false birth certificate because the crime has passed the statute of limitations.

And as far as the Spanish criminal justice system goes a false birth certificate doesn't legally prove that a baby has been kidnapped.

As it stands the Spanish Catholic church's history of child kidnapping will go unpunished. The only thing that can be done is to remain vigilant against those in power.

https://www.ranker.com/list/catholic-church-trafficked-stollen-babies-spain/jacob-shelton

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How the 'stolen babies' trial in Spain is scandal that won't be forgottenPart I

As many as 300,000 babies were taken from their families for political gain

Federico Lpez-Terra Thursday 19 July 2018 13:41

It is 6 June 1969 and Spain is living through the final years of Franco’s dictatorship. At a clinic in Madrid, a woman gives birth to a baby girl she will never see again.

Little is known about what happened to the mother – but almost 50 years later, her daughter Inés Madrigal has just given evidence in a shocking trial.

In the dock was Dr Eduardo Vela, an 85-year-old former gynaecologist accused of stealing Inés from her biological mother.

Vela is alleged to have given the baby as a “gift” to a couple, the Madrigals, who were unable to have their own children. He denies the charges.

Despite the cinematic plot, this is not an isolated case. A network of baby trafficking is believed to have involved a vast network of doctors, nurses, nuns and priests.

Although there is no official figure, the SOS Stolen Babies association estimates that as many as 300,000 babies were taken from their parents in Spain between 1939 and the 1990s.

Now 49, Inés Madrigal works for the association and is the first “stolen baby” to successfully take an alleged perpetrator of one of these crimes to court.

The roots of these crimes date back from the origins of Francoism when Spanish fascists were trying to prove eugenic theories of dissidents’ mental inferiority.

It was a thesis defended by the military psychiatrist Antonio Vallejo-Nágera – aka “the Spanish Mengele” – who led Franco’s office of psychological research.

He argued that political beliefs promoted in left-wing families could “intoxicate” children and “damage the mental health of future generations”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/stolen-babies-scandal-in-spain-crime-madrid-hospital-a8449286.html

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How the 'stolen babies' trial in Spain is scandal that won't be forgottenPart II

As many as 300,000 babies were taken from their families for political gain

Federico Lpez-Terra Thursday 19 July 2018 13:41

Vallejo-Nágera also believed that women had an “atrophied intelligence” and their sole life purpose was to procreate.

This ideological context helps explain the profile of the “adopters” of the stolen babies – affluent married women raised in a Catholic country who were unable to have children of their own.

Social pressure was extreme (male sterility wasn’t even considered back then) and having children equated to fulfilling their role in a devoutly Christian society.

Yet what started as an ideologically driven plan to purge Spain of an inferior race (the Marxists) turned into a lucrative business. Newborn children were taken away from their mothers without consent.

They were told the child was born dead or had died soon after.

Most of the time, children would be registered as the biological child of the adopting family, who would pay large sums of money for them.

(Some adopting families were also deceived and believed they were legally adopting children in need of a home.)

These acts represent one of the darkest chapters of Franco’s dictatorship. But its ideological roots share similarities with cases in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s,

when children of dissidents (prisoners, murdered or “disappeared” people), were given to supporters of the regimes in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

But, as with many other originally Francoist crimes, in Spain the illicit network outlived the authoritarian regime. After Franco’s death in 1975,

many perpetrators are believed to have continued their practices during Spanish democracy in the 1980s and 1990s.

Among the many problems victims face, the lack of institutional support in Spain is probably one of the most serious.

Evidence of the extent of the network is still unclear, and the Spanish Catholic church has so far denied access to its files.

Earlier suspicions over the scandal were previously never taken forward and police dropped the cases given the repercussions and the people involved: politicians, lawyers, doctors – a sinister network of crime.

But despite recent public promises very little has been done to support the cause.

Something as simple as a DNA database to help clarify heritage is still overdue in Spain. The lack of documentary evidence and the statute of limitations has resulted in most of the cases being shelved.

So far, the only person convicted in relation to these cases is Ascensión López – herself one of the alleged “stolen babies” – who was prosecuted for slandering a nun.

A court ruled she had wrongly accused the nun of taking her from her biological mother and handing her to ageing adoptive parents in 1962.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/stolen-babies-scandal-in-spain-crime-madrid-hospital-a8449286.html

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Lost children of Francoism

The lost children of Francoism (Spanish: niños perdidos del franquismo, niños robados por el franquismo; Catalan: nens perduts del franquisme, nens furtats pel franquisme;

Galician: nenos do franquismo, pícaros roubados polo Franquismo) were the children abducted from Republican parents, who were either in jail or had been assassinated by Nationalist troops,

during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain.[1] The kidnapped children were sometimes also victims of child trafficking and illegal adoption.[2] The numbers of stolen children are highly speculative;

these figures may include children who became orphaned as a result of the Civil War (1936-1939) and, therefore, do not fall under the same category as children taken away from their parents by the regime after the war for political or social reasons.

Children who were stolen or adopted by families during or immediately after the war may have been victims of either side in the conflict. The issue has been highly ideologized in recent years as the political environment in Spain has become highly polarized.

Hispanic eugenics

Hispanic eugenics was pioneered by doctors like Antonio Vallejo Nájera and Gregorio Marañón. Antes que te cases was published by Nájera in 1946, with one part saying,

"Racial decadence is the result of many things but the most important is conjugal unhappiness in the most prosperous and happy of homes. … Eugenic precepts may avoid morbid offspring. …

It is impossible a robust race without a sound preparation of youth for marriage, through Catholic Morality. This little work is a minuscule contribution to the exaltation of the Fatherland."[3]

Marañón's 1921 Maternidad y feminismo, republished as a second edition in 1951, said, "The difference between the sexes is insurmountable.

Such difference emerges from the anatomical surface of each man and woman, and it goes to the deepest, darkest roots of life, to the home of the cells."[3]

Victims' groups have stated that the baby kidnappings developed into a business that continued into the 1980s.[20]

In January 2011, the families of 261 babies who disappeared in hospitals over a duration of fifty years put forward their case to the attorney general in Madrid.[20]

This started when two brothers were told by their foster father that he had bought them from a priest; the pair then went to the media and the story spread, making others come forward.[21]

Evidence consisted of nurses and people who admitted illegally adopting babies, with hospital staff, nuns and priests being suspected of being part of an organised network.[20]

People underwent DNA tests in the hope of reuniting their families but there were few matches. Many graves of dead infants were dug up for DNA-testing but some contained no remains while others contained those of an adult.[21]

According to lawyers involved in some cases, the number of abducted children is estimated to be up to 300,000.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_children_of_Francoism

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>>20789653

Keeps on calling a certain anon 'RUSSELL GOULD BOT' which tells anon that he's trying to distract from the most important Q connection…picrel.

That and it's interesting that Russell already called out the Catholic-Church for their plan to enslave the World.

>>20789689

I wonder if Q knew when he said "Saving Israel for Last" that it was a country of Jews.

>>20789388

These city women are complicated. Eve n with the mind of an inspector general you can’t seem to figure them out even when they think they are giving you the answers. You best buckle up for the ride. Have we met? She might be ultra MAGA sound even as a liberal from NY who got the shot and first time ever I saw your face was not in NY. It’s gonna be an imperial red banner day with the money shot. Could spend years trying to decode this one. Imagine it if could only figure out her real name in less than two weeks.

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