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This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she woke up sometime later and …
Since a few years ago came to light that adopted children from Ethiopia were ‘harvested’ and conned from their parents, caused a stir. But adoptions from numerous other countries saves on false papers, lies and deceit. Now a new law on the way to provide secure adoptions – maybe. The affluent South Korea is considered a model country for international …
“We saw a person grab my son and take him away. No one could find him, it was as if he had evaporated.” A Chinese Father “The feeling of losing your child, it’s like …like being hopeless. We are living with dead hearts.” A Chinese Mother “The orphanages classified the children as ‘orphans’ or ‘abandoned’….and put them up for international …
By Dale Hurd BARCELONA, Spain — At a cemetery in Barcelona, trucks arrived for a court-ordered exhumation. All across Spain, officials are opening the coffins of dead newborn babies to see if there are any human remains inside.They have discovered that many of the coffins are empty. Spain is reeling from one of the worst crimes since World War II. …
Up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from ‘undesirable’ families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco’s Secret police. Now, decades on, some of these stolen children are trying to find their biological families. The racket began shortly after the Spanish Civil War as a way of stopping a new generation of ‘Reds’ …
