Argentina tries doctors for 'baby theft' during military rule

[Judi Lynn]

2. Argentina tries doctors for dictatorship baby thefts

Argentina tries doctors for dictatorship baby thefts
AFP
By Sonia Avalos
5 hours ago

Buenos Aires (AFP) - Two doctors and a midwife went on trial in Argentina on Wednesday accused of delivering political prisoners' babies and helping the country's former military regime steal them from their parents.

"It's a very important trial because it will judge the complicity of doctors and midwives who were directly responsible for these crimes against humanity," said 36-year-old Francisco Madariaga, one of an estimated 500 children taken from their mothers at birth during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Madariaga was born in a secret maternity ward at a military hospital in Buenos Aires, delivered by midwife Luisa Yolanda Arroche, who is charged with falsifying his birth certificate and abetting his kidnapping.

Arroche, now 86 years old, is standing trial with doctors Norberto Bianco and Raul Martin, who are both also in their 80s.

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Pregnant prisoners were often forced to give birth blindfolded and handcuffed.

Their babies were then taken away and often given to military or police families, sometimes even their parents' killers.

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