Prosecutor Maria Luisa Torres is one of the few who, with the help of DNA analysis, was able to prove that her child abducted 30 years ago was alive and adopted and that nun Maria Gomez Valbuena lied to her when she told her that her child died during childbirth.
Doctors, nurses and religious staff at several clinics and hospitals in Spain are suspected of selling children for adoption for decades after lying to mothers that the children had died during childbirth.
At the hearing before the Madrid Superior Court of Justice, Valbuena, now in her 80s, refused to answer the judge's questions. She used to work at the Santa Cristina Hospital in Madrid and became the first person to be charged in the slowly growing scandal.
She was formally accused of kidnapping and falsification of documents in the early 1980s.
Groups of women who claim their children were abducted shouted 'shameless' at the nun as she was led from court.
In total, more than 900 lawsuits were filed, most of which were dismissed for lack of evidence.
Most women claim that they were told that their babies died during or shortly after childbirth, they claim that they never saw the deceased babies or received a death certificate. They believe that their children were taken away from them because the doctors or religious staff of the hospital thought they were not suitable mothers because they were too young, too poor or unmarried.
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