Spain may not investigate "child theft" allegations

Spain may not investigate "child theft" allegations (Roundup) - Monsters and Critics: "The illegal adoptions are believed to have begun after leftist republican troops lost the 1936-39 civil war to General Francisco Franco.
In the aftermath of the war, an estimated 30,000 children were taken away from republican women. The children were handed over to Francoist families or placed in institutions to purify them of their leftist heritage.
Later on, the practice became an organized criminal racket, continuing through Franco's 1939-75 dictatorship until the 1990s, according to Anadir.
Mothers were told that their babies had died. The network then found buyers who registered the child as their own, according to the association."

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