SPAIN
The Bellingham Herald
By SINIKKA TARVAINEN — dpa
MADRID — Spain will do “whatever it can” to help the judiciary investigate cases of stolen babies and illegal adoptions stretching back for decades, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Thursday, after one of the key suspects died.
As many as 300,000 children may have been stolen from their mothers by independently operated rings comprised of doctors, nurses, midwives, officials, cemetery workers and intermediaries between the 1940s and 1990s, according to victims’ representatives.
The government has already adopted measures such as arranging for free DNA tests for some of those affected.
One of the best-known suspects – Maria Gomez Valbuena, a nun – died Tuesday at the age of 87 in Madrid, her religious order said.
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