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    Wowsers.

    Their story is just one of tens of thousands relating to Chilean families torn apart by illegal adoption. Parents were typically told that their babies were lost or dead. In reality, they had been stolen and sold, facilitated by a network of social workers, faith officials and health and legal professionals across the country. Thousands of dollars were paid by American and European families for newborns they believed had been given up willingly. Mothers in Chile have recounted how hospital staff claimed their babies had died at birth and refused requests to see their bodies. Others were denied access to their babies, who were being looked after in children’s homes or public ins utions, while some were coerced into giving them up for adoption.
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    Poor, young and Indigenous communities were targeted, and a climate of fear made it impossible to dispute the loss of a child
    Not long after sunrise on a hot day in Santiago, four of these broken families were meeting in person for the first time. Brought together by Connecting Roots, an NGO dedicated to redressing the damage caused by decades of forced and illegal adoption, the group included daughters, sons, siblings and parents nervously waiting to set eyes on each other. They would then travel to their Chilean home towns to get to know relatives and share stories and photographs from the lives they had led apart.

    She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on? (msn.com)

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    Take the fcking keys away baseline bum's Avatar
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    Why do you hate America?

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    Chinese babies, you say? That figure is a drop in the bucket. Yawn.

    Edit: I see it’s Chilean babies now. Tough story, hopefully there’s some Gustavo Fring success stories out of the lot.

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    Just think OP. In 12 years you'll be looking at their selfies online and fantasizing.

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    Just think OP. In 12 years you'll be looking at their selfies online and fantasizing.
    Don't be stupid. He's not going to wait.

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