Eduardo Vela: 'Stolen babies' doctor escapes punishment in Spain
Source: BBC
A Madrid court has let off a former doctor over stealing newborn babies from their mothers and supplying them to infertile couples.
The court found gynaecologist Eduardo Vela, 85, had committed the crimes but could not legally be convicted because too much time had elapsed.
He was the first person to go on trial for illegal adoptions that took place during and after the fascist dictatorship of General Franco.
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After Franco's triumph in Spain's 1936-1939 civil war, many children were removed from families identified by the fascist regime as left-wing and given to families considered more deserving.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45782359
A victim says she will appeal the sentencing.
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Whenever there has been a chance, with progressive presidents, like the Kirchners, total efforts have been made to find these monsters and prosecute them.
The pattern had already been set in Spain by the Franco regime. What a filthy, despicable thing to do to your imagined political enemies and their entire families.
The article from the BBC posted above says that the kidnappings had the full blessings of the "Church," since Franco was deeply approved by and involved with the Church in Spain.
This man is wildly out of place. Vela has needed to be in prison for decades.
