Nun accused of baby snatching

SPAIN
The Irish Times

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.

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