US EditionChile Prosecutes Individuals Alleged to Have Stolen Babies
- On Monday, a Chilean judge announced the initiation of legal proceedings against people accused of abducting babies during General Pinochet’s regime from 1973 to 1990.
- The prosecutions stem from inquiries into a 1980s scheme involving health officials, clergy, lawyers, social workers, and judges who abducted infants—primarily from poor mothers—and arranged for their illegal adoption abroad.
- The ongoing investigation concerns two babies abducted in San Fernando, central Chile, and a judge has formally accused five individuals with offenses related to organized crime, kidnapping of minors, and intentional wrongdoing.
- President Boric created a task force last year that issued a report recognizing systematic theft of babies as a fact and announced plans for a genetic fingerprint bank to aid family reunifications.
- For more than ten years, NGOs such as Nos Buscamos have recorded thousands of cases involving stolen babies, maintaining a collection of around 9,000 instances that has facilitated the reunion of over 600 families.
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The victims of illegal adoptions during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile demand speed in the creation of a public DNA bank.
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By Cristopher Ulloa, CNN en Español An appeals judge in Santiago has issued the first indictment for cases of child abduction during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, between the 1970s and 1990s, the Chilean judiciary reported in a statement on Monday. Judge Alejandro Aguilar charged five people with criminal association, child abduction, and willful prevarication, and also requested the extradition of the first defendant from Israe…
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