SPAIN
Herald Sun (Australia)
A NUN in Spain has become the first person to be charged with abducting a baby as part of a larger investigation into the kidnapping and worldwide sale of children by priests and nuns over a 40-year period.
Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena, 80, has been linked to some 3000 claims of kidnapping by families who say the Madrid nun stole their children for resale to childless couples, The (London) Times reported Saturday.
According to Spanish daily El Pais, the abductions mostly took place at San Ramon and Santa Cristina hospitals in Madrid from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
Maria Luisa Torres was one of countless people who took up Valbuena’s offer to help single mothers who were in dire straits, agreeing to temporarily place her baby in a child care facility that she could visit, the Times said.
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