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Spain's Stolen Babies

Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.

Katya Adler reports on the impact of Spain's stolen baby scandal.

The country is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking.

It is thought that the trade began at the end of the Spanish civil war and continued for 50 years, with hundreds of thousands of babies traded by nuns, priests and doctors up to the 1990s.

Exhumations of the supposed graves of babies and positive DNA tests are proof that baby theft has happened.

Across Spain, people are queuing up to take a DNA test and thousands of Spaniards are asking 'Who am I?'

Katya meets the heartbroken mothers searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.

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25 minutes

Last on

Sun 6 Nov 2011 04:05GMT

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  • Thu 3 Nov 2011 09:05GMT
  • Thu 3 Nov 2011 12:05GMT
  • Thu 3 Nov 2011 16:05GMT
  • Thu 3 Nov 2011 20:05GMT
  • Fri 4 Nov 2011 02:05GMT
  • Sun 6 Nov 2011 04:05GMT

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