Chile: Catholic priests investigated over stolen babies
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[quote]The Catholic church in Chile is under investigation over allegations that priests played a central part in a network which stole newborn babies from single mothers.
Police investigators are now probing dozens of cases in which unmarried women who became pregnant were pressured by priests to give their child up for adoption. Those who refused were anaesthetized during childbirth and, upon awakening, told that the newborn had died. The healthy babies were hidden from their biological mother and given away in order to be raised by married couples in "traditional" Catholic families....
...Matias Troncoso, 33, a well-known Chilean photographer, is one of these cases. Troncoso always knew he was adopted but when he began asking questions about his biological mother, the answers did not add up. His birth was not registered until he was six years old, and the clinic where he was born refused to release his records.
The doctor who delivered him was elderly and his memory starting to fail, but enough details leaked out that Troncoso began to suspect a plot.
Last month Troncoso's suspicions were confirmed when Chilean investigative news site Ciper reported the allegations. In a series of online articles, the collective's reporters tracked down and documented an underground network of wealthy families, gynaecologists, social workers, lawyers and at the heart of the scheme Gerardo Joannon, a gregarious and popular Catholic priest...
...Troncoso, the photographer who is now searching for his biological mother wants answers. "I don't know my birthday. I don't know my [biological] mother" he said. "These woman entered the clinic. They were put to sleep and when they woke up were told 'Your baby has died.' Basically it was kidnapping."[/quote]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/chile-catholic-priests-investigated-stolen-babies[/url]
Stop giving religion a bad name you fucking cunts.
This is horrifying.
Who'd have thought innocent children would be in any danger from a catholic priest? Madre de dios!
Damn Catholics and their baby-napping.
I bet you he's a Jacobite, too!
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