Nun Accused of Baby Snatching

Irish Times
March 17, 2012

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0317/1224313477557.html

An 80-year-old nun has become the first person to be accused of baby snatching in the scandal over trafficking of newborns in Spanish hospitals in past decades.

Sr Maria Gomez has been named as a suspect in the investigation into one of more than 1,500 cases of suspected illegal trafficking of babies who were stolen, sold or given away by adoption over four decades until the 1980s.

Campaigners claim a network of doctors, nurses and nuns stole and sometimes sold babies in Spain up until the early 1980s. It appears what began as a system for removing babies from families deemed politically dangerous by the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco allegedly evolved into a business that targeted single mothers and the poor. – (Guardian service)