The Prosecutor’s Office admits a collective complaint of 56 possible cases of ‘stolen children’


View of a demonstration of those affected by the so-called ‘theft’ of babies.- EFE / Víctor Lerena.

by ANA MARÍA PASCUAL @Anmariapascual

Good news for women who denounce the abduction of their newborns in past decades of democracy and during the dictatorship. The State Attorney General’s Office admits to processing the collective complaint of 56 families, included in half a dozen associations.
Manifestación en Madrid por los niños robados./ EFE

It is the first time that a collective complaint has been filed for cases of ‘stolen children’ with a gender perspective. A new approach that, for now, seems to be working. The complainants understand that the crime was perpetrated against women, both single and married, at the time of delivery.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office undertakes to investigate these cases one by one in order to respond to the mothers and families who suspect that they were victims of an abduction of their babies between 1952 and 1987.

The complaint, which was filed on November 19, includes the cases of 56 women who gave birth in maternity wards and charities for single mothers in Andalusia, Euskadi, Catalonia, Madrid, La Rioja and Galicia, between 1952 and 1987, already those who informed them by health or religious personnel that their babies had died, without obtaining any proof of this. In some cases, as Public has learned, they do not even have the documentation that proves having given birth; in other cases, their children are not buried.

The complainant associations are the International Platform of Victims of Forced Child Disappearances ‘We are looking for you’; the associations SOS Babies Stolen Comunitat Valenciana, Catalunya y Navarra; SOS Stolen Babies / SOS Haur Lapurtuak; Association Without Biological Identity; and Fight Association of Mothers of Stolen Babies Andalucía, Alumbra.

The head of the latter entity, María Bueno, who is also the coordinator of the ‘We are looking for you’ Platform, explains to this newspaper that the complainants “are hopeful that this time an exhaustive and coordinated investigation will be carried out, giving response to a human problem and a social need “.

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The Office of the Prosecutor, in a letter addressed to María Bueno, states its obligation to respond to those mothers, daughters, sons and families who suspect that they have been victims of the abduction of their babies.

It emphasizes that, despite the fact that some cases present in the complaint had already been investigated and filed by the Justice, they could be reopened based on new evidence. The Public Prosecutor makes it clear that the investigation must be individualized, despite the fact that there may be connections in the modus operandi of clinics and institutions, such as nurseries, for single mothers.

And he announces that he has already initiated a coordination file for “centralized monitoring of all actions” that the Public Prosecutor will order throughout the national territory.

However, the State Attorney General’s Office recalls that the different investigations, since 2011, on the abduction of newborns have not allowed to prove, for the moment, the existence of a plot as such.

…. ”Hi I’m looking for my twin brother, we were born at the hospital in Zamacola, after a few hours they told my mother that my brother had died but never let her see the body. I have no birth or death certificate and she was not told where they had buried him. My mother was single. We were born on 02/01/1962. My mother’s name was Felisa Ortega……if someone remembers my mother’s name or was born in that hospital on that date please get in touch with me”….this is one of over 60 appeals for information in the Comments of the original article in Spanish.

In their complaint, which has had the advice of the Baltasar Garzón Foundation, the aforementioned associations denounce crimes of forced disappearance and crime against humanity, which they do not prescribe.

They also argue crimes of documentary falsification, assumption of childbirth, alteration of filiation and gender violence, because they understand that “the violence suffered by mothers at the time of their delivery was part of the subordination to which they were subjected on a daily basis and normalized in all the structures of the society of the Francoism, the late Francoism and the transition “.

Concentration at the entrance of the Provincial Court of Madrid that judges Dr. Eduardo Vela in the plot of the babies stolen during the Franco regime. / EFE
The Supreme Court considers the illegal detention of the baby Inés Madrigal unproven but condemns Dr. Vela for falsehood
EFE

‘Spanish Democracy built over pits of Corpses’/Spanish death pits never investigated as heirs of killers still enjoy stolen wealth./Campaign for Truth Commision begins/ Thousands of people applauded Baltasar Garzon in the Puerta del Sol in an event organized to demand a Truth Commission which drew historical memory associations, relatives of victims, politicians, trade unionists, lawyers and people who wanted to vindicate the need not to forget the history of recovering hundreds of thousands of reprisals by the Franco regime that still remain missing in pits and ditches throughout the national territory.

La Fiscalía admite una denuncia colectiva de 56 posibles casos de ‘niños robados’ 

El Ministerio Fiscal se compromete a investigar uno por uno estos casos para dar respuesta a las madres y familias que sospechan que fueron víctimas de una sustracción de sus bebés entre 1952 y 1987.

MADRID05/01/2021 19:50

ANA MARÍA PASCUAL@Anmariapascual

Buenas noticias para las mujeres que denuncian la sustracción de sus recién nacidos en décadas pasadas de la democracia y durante la dictadura. La Fiscalía General del Estado admite a trámite la denuncia colectiva de 56 familias, englobadas en media docena de asociaciones. Es la primera vez que se interpone una denuncia colectiva por casos de ‘niños robados’ con una perspectiva de género. Un nuevo enfoque que, de momento, parece surtir efecto. Las denunciantes entienden que el delito se perpetró contra las mujeres, tanto solteras como casadas, en el momento del parto.

La denuncia, que fue presentada el pasado 19 de noviembre, recoge los casos de 56 mujeres que dieron a luz en maternidades e instituciones benéficas para madres solteras de Andalucía, Euskadi, Cataluña, Madrid, La Rioja y Galicia, entre 1952 y 1987, y a las que les informaron por parte del personal sanitario o religioso que sus bebés habían fallecido, sin obtener ninguna prueba de ello. En algunos casos, según ha sabido Público, ni siquiera cuentan con la documentación que acredita haber dado a luz; en otros casos, sus hijos no constan enterrados. 

Las asociaciones denunciantes son la Plataforma Internacional de Víctimas de Desapariciones Forzadas Infantiles ‘Te estamos buscando’;  las asociaciones SOS Bebés Robados Comunitat Valenciana, Catalunya y Navarra; SOS Bebés Robados/ SOS Haur Lapurtuak; Asociación Sin Identidad Biológica; y Asociación Lucha de Madres de Bebés Robados Andalucía, Alumbra. La responsable de esta ultima entidad, María Bueno, que también es la coordinadora de la Plataforma ‘ Te estamos buscando’ , explica a este diario que las denunciantes “nos encontramos esperanzadas de que esta vez se lleve a cabo una investigación exhaustiva  y coordinada, dando respuesta a un problema humano y a una necesidad social”.

La Fiscalía, en una carta dirigida a María Bueno, manifiesta su obligación de dar respuesta a aquellas madres, hijas, hijos y familias que sospechan haber sido víctimas de una sustracción de sus bebés. Incide en que, pese a que algunos casos presentes en la denuncia ya habían sido investigados y archivados por la Justicia, podrían reabrirse en base a nuevas pruebas. Deja claro el Ministerio Fiscal que la investigación deberá ser individualizada, pese a que puedan existir conexiones en el modus operandi de clínicas e instituciones, como las casas-cuna, para madres solteras. Y anuncia que ya ha incoado expediente de coordinación para “el seguimiento centralizado de todas las actuaciones” que ordenará el Ministerio Fiscal en todo el territorio nacional.

No obstante, recuerda la Fiscalía General del Estado que las distintas investigaciones, desde 2011, sobre la sustracción de recién nacidos no han permitido acreditar, de momento, la existencia de una trama como tal.  

En su denuncia, que ha contado con el asesoramiento de la Fundación Baltasar Garzón, las asociaciones antes citadas denuncian delitos de desaparición forzada y crimen de lesa humanidad, que no prescriben. También argumentan delitos de falsedad documental, suposición de parto, alteración de la filiación y violencia de género, porque entienden que “la violencia sufrida por las madres en el momento de su parto formaba parte de la subordinación a la que estaban sometidas de manera cotidiana y normalizada en todas las estructuras de la sociedad del franquismo, el tardofranquismo y la transición“. 

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