Obstetrician’s trial could unlock secrets of Spain’s stolen babies scandal

MADRID (SPAIN)
Los Angeles Times

June 25, 2018

By James Badcock

Ines Perez and her husband were unable to have children.

Then a Jesuit priest introduced them to Dr. Eduardo Vela, an obstetrician in Madrid who said he knew a woman who had become pregnant during an affair and did not want to keep the baby. But this would not be a standard adoption.

The doctor told Perez to use a pillow to fake pregnancy. Then when he finally handed her the baby, he signed a birth certificate saying that she and her husband were the biological parents.

“Look, what a gift!” he said that day in June 1969. “I have a girl for you.”

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