"STOLEN BABIES"

Now day, in Spain, there is none that does not know about the stolen babies. There are appearing a lot of cases about stolen babies. All of this started with a nun, Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena, she was charged by the illegally market of babies. But this happened 30-50 years ago.

Many couples who wanted to adopt came to Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena derived from the Spanish Agency for the Protection of Adoption, founded in 1969 by the prosecutor of the Supreme Gregorio Guijarro, who is an adoptive father of twins. In 1980, when there was talk of an illegal market for babies, Pebble declared in El Pais (famous newspaper of Spain): "Today, the fastest way to get a child for adoption system is gaining the sympathy of the people directly related to the theme: social workers , nuns ... within adopters, a good file is in the hands of Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena ".

"MY DAD CONFESSED TO ME THAT HE BOUGHT ME"

This story is about, two men, Juan Luis Morenom, and Antonio Barroso, have led parallel lives. Children of married friends, grew up together and they were also really close friends, but three years ago they discovered something that would change their life forever.

The paternal confession: "I bought you for 150,000 pesetas*1." And two lives crumble. The revelation was made by the father of Juan Luis. "I guess you already know you're not my son, but now I confirm it. We went to buy you to Zaragoza, for 150.00 pesetas, and Antonio's parent did the same," he said, lying in a hospital bed, days before his death. He continued his story: The year was 1969, the parents of Antonio an elderly couple unable to have children, contacted some people who told them that the Health Residence José Antonio de Miguel Zaragoza -now Servet- could get one baby. They had no relationship with the city, but there collected a child that took Barcelona with a birth certificate identifying him as their own.

"This happened in April and two months later, following his advice, my father traveled to Zaragoza to meet with a priest who worked with the peperwork. He told me,that the prist had given to choose between a boy or a girl and had assured him that in a few months he would have a baby. A change they had to pay 150,000 pesetas for the costs of delivery and documentation. The prist never told them who would be the mother or why she gave up for adoption"said Juan Luis. So his father returned to Barcelona, waited for the call and on the date indicated -in Figure birth 26 November 1969 picked up the baby.

This is one of thousands stories that now day you can find in the Spanish media.
*1 It is a old type of money of Spain, they changed to Euros € in 2002.

The story of Juan Luis and Antonio:
http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2010/09/espana/ninos_robados/juanluis_antonio.html
News of the stolen babies:
http://elpais.com/tag/ninos_robados/a/