Stolen in the cradle, he finds his biological mother after 42 years: "They told her I was dead in the hospital"

He hugged his biological mother after 42 years .

He, an American lawyer from Virginia , she a Chilean woman who had been told that her baby - born prematurely and kept in an incubator - had died in the cradle shortly after birth. But the blue bundle had actually been stolen by hospital staff, victims of child trafficking in Chile.

The man, Jimmy Lippert Thyden, discovered by chance that he has a mother and a family in Chile after reading last April about some US children of Chilean origin reunited with their families thanks to the help of a non-profit . According to US media reports, the organization has managed to reconstruct what happened more than 4 decades ago. The baby, born in Santiago, had remained under observation while his mother was sent home. Upon his return to the structure, the terrible news: the newborn was dead, the body thrown away. “According to my adoption papers, I have no living relatives,” Thyden said. In recent months , however, I have learned that I have four brothers and a sister ».

Thyden was therefore the victim of an adoption scam . According to data from the "Nos Buscamos" association, thousands of children were taken from their families in Chile between the 1970s and 1980s. They were often poor people, unsuspecting victims of a cruel system that reached its peak during the Pinochet regime.

(Unioneonline/vf)