In Spain, stolen babies come to light, unleashing grief, legal action
Beyond the debate over the numbers, whether we’re talking about 3,000 or 300,000 illegal adoptions, there’s the story of Antonio Barroso. Antonio is 42. His whole life he’d suspected he’d been adopted. But his parents always denied it. You’re our son, they said. And then, when he was 38, his phone rang. It was a childhood friend. That friend had just left his own father’s death bed and come away with a confession. Both he and Antonio were adopted […]
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