Facing jail: Spanish 'stolen baby' who searched for her mother

[muriel_volestrangler]

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Lopez is too poor to pay €40,000 (£35,000; $46,000) in damages after 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.

If the government does not pardon her, the 55-year-old will be the first person to be jailed over Spain's enormous baby-snatching racket stemming from the Franco era.
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According to López, her adoptive father, a senior figure in Gen Francisco Franco's regime in Almeria whose marriage was barren, bought her for 250,000 pesetas (about €50,000, £44,000 , $57,000 in today's money) via his niece, Dolores Baena, a nun working in a Seville hospital at the time. Her father was 67, and her new mother around 60. Dolores became her cousin.
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López's investigation has uncovered an adoption sheet signed by Sister Dolores, but the Seville authorities cannot find any document in which her biological mother surrendered her child.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40447215

So there's no proof her biological mother gave her up willingly, her adoptive father was in the Franco regime, notorious for this, but it could be her who goes to jail. What a miscarriage of justice.

[StevieM]

1. This was the sick reality of the Baby Scoop Era. (eom)