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The ‘stolen babies’ trial in Spain finally shines a light on a scandal that cannot be forgotten
It is June 6 1969 and Spain is living through the final years of Franco’s dictatorship.
At a clinic in Madrid, a woman gives birth to a baby girl she will never see again.
- Federico López-Terra
- The Conversation
Little is known about what happened to that mother – but almost 50 years later, her daughter Inés Madrigal has just given evidence in…
In the dock was Dr Eduardo Vela, an 85-year-old former gynaecologist accused of stealing Inés from her biological mother.
Vela is alleged to have given the baby as a “gift” to a couple, the Madrigals, who were unable to have their own children.
He denies the charges.
Despite the cinematic…