ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: The Reader
28January2011 11:45amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
For several months, the trickle of calls has been relentless. Almost every day, several people contact ANADIR with the suspicion of having being one of the babies stolen at birth from their natural 
mothers by 'child stealing' gangs operating in maternity hospitals across Spain during the years of Franco and the first years of democracy. ANADIR - (Asociación Nacional de Afectados por Adopciones Ilegales -National Association of People Affected by Illegal Adoptions), had now prepared an official demand that the Public Prosecutor setup a national investigation.
Many elderly people now live in fear that their children, who they were told be doctors or midwives had died at birth, are in fact alive and living with other families. Others know they are in the wrong home because their parents have confessed that they bought them from corrupt doctors or priests - but have no way of tracing their true parents and family.
So far, 261 people have already joined this partnership in search of answers. Together, and led by barrister Enrique Vila they have prepared a joint report, presented this morning to the Attorney General's Office, asking for an official committee to investigate what happened. (read full report)
