SPAIN
New York Daily News
Madrid, April 13 (IANS/EFE) Following a wave of allegations of illegal adoptions, Spain’s government pledged Thursday to set up a database of infants who may have been stolen during the 1939-1975 Franco dictatorship and beyond.
The government announced that and other measures after meeting with associations of affected parents and families Thursday, the same day the first suspect in the baby-stealing scandal, 80-year-old Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena, appeared before Madrid’s Superior Tribunal of Justice.
Prosecutors in different Spanish provinces are investigating hundreds of cases of alleged child-stealing, especially between 1950 and 1990.
The national government, which said the measures are aimed at “determining the real scope of the problem”, also will create a working group coordinated by the Justice Ministry and the Attorney General’s Office.
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