Spanish ‘stolen baby’ who searched for her mother
“Even if I go to jail, I will remain freer than those who are prisoners of their own lies,” buy canada goose jacket says Ascensin Lpez, who faces five months in prison for slandering a nun. “They cannot take away what I know in my mind.”
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If the government does not pardon canada goose outlet her, the 55 year old will be the first person to be jailed over Spain’s enormous baby snatching racket stemming from the canada goose coats on sale Franco era.
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“I have a bone wasting disease, I have not been able to work for three years and my two children are unemployed and have no contact with their father,” a tearful Lpez told the BBC.
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When she was eight, she came home from school to canada goose uk outlet find local dignitaries in her parents’ bedroom. Before her lay her father’s body. He had suffered a stroke and died.
“I went to my room to cry, and a member of the family came to see me and asked why I was crying for that man who had nothing to do with me, but had only bought me when I was a new born.”
Asking for information from her mother and relatives, Lpez began to suspect there was something not quite right about her adoption, long before the issue of babies being stolen from poor or politically suspect parents became a public issue canada goose black friday sale in Spain.
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Mystery of Ascensin’s three namesFor a start, she had different names cheap Canada Goose on the various bits of paperwork that confirmed her identity.
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As Canada Goose Coats On Sale a small child, her name was Mara Dolores “I was always Loli at home” but her first identity card named her officially as Mara Ascensin.
“Whatever happened to my mother, I am very clear that my cheap canada goose uk identity was stolen.”
Lpez asked the nun, her buy canada goose jacket cheap cousin, if she could help her trace her background.
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As an https://www.canadagoosejacketonlines.ca activist and president of SOS Stolen Babies Almera, representing other possible victims of the stolen baby scandal that stretches over half a century from the 1930s to Canada Goose sale the 1990s, Lpez spoke of her case in the media, naming Sister Dolores as the person who “organised” her illegal adoption.
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Sister Dolores did not reply to requests by the BBC to comment for this article.
canada goose outlet uk sale Lpez admits she may have been “careless” in her wording when accusing the nun, but feels let down by the legal system. “I was judged as a daughter, as a mother and as a woman; my whole life was put on trial.” canada goose outlet uk sale
What happened to Spain’s stolen babies?Estimates of the number of cases of stolen babies in Spain range from 30,000 to 300,000.
