Stolen children

Approximately 50 years ago (or even more) something horrible happened in Spain during some years, which now it has been recorded in two chapters so everyone can know exactly what used to happen. 

There was a religious woman called Sor Maria and a doctor called Eduardo Vela,  that worked together and did horrible things; steal children. 
In those years, everyone used to be very religious and nuns used to be very important and belivable. I don't know a lot about this but according in what I've seen in the serie, those women used to be in the hospital to help to the new borns.

According to the two chapters, those religious women had contact with people from all around the spanish country to move their project and know exactly what was happening. They used to act like they helped young pregnant women -most of the times. They would lie to them and then tell them they were going to help them: give them a work and food until they have the baby and then they can go home. 

Everyone was very catholic so everyone used to trust them. Why should a nun lie and steal the babies from their mothers?


In the serie there are two different examples of what happened to two different young mothers and at the end it's the present and they have the chance to meet their daughters because they found them (which represents what is currently going on in Spain). One of the examples explain the story of a young girl that got pregnant with a guy. They weren't together, they just had sex. After that, they had to get married because in those years these things couldn't happen because then the family's reputation would be horrible. They were still friends and they accorded to help each other, but she was leaving the town to start from 0 because her parents didn't accept the baby.
So the girl went to the city and she couldn't find a work. Then she called somebody to see if they had a work for her and she told him she was pregnant. The guy said he would search a work for her, but he called one of the Sor Maria's contacts and she accepted to let her work there; they probably needed more babies for the rich families that couldn't have babies.
The girl went to there and the woman said she would let her work for her and then have the baby, but that she had to sign a contract that said she would give her baby up for adoption. She didn't accept and said she wasn't going to stay there, but the woman told her she wasn't going to leave the place, that they could let the thing go and when she has the baby they would talk and fix the things. She didn't have anything so she accepted.

Months later she had the baby; it was a girl. After some hours, Sor Maria went to her room and told her she had to sign a paper. She didn't pay attention and when she was about to sign, she saw it was a certificate to give the baby to adoption. Then she refused to, but the nun ask her how was she supposed to take care of a baby without money if her parents didn't accept the baby and the girl said she was going to do it anyways, that she accepted to do it. Then Sor Maria explained her a plan B -the new parents of the baby were in their way to the hospital so the nun couldn't let the baby go-. The plan was "You can go to your town and talk to your parents and ask them if they accept you taking the baby. Without that, you won't go anywhere. People won't help you. You need they by your side. Go and ask them if they finally accept, then come back. We will be caring of your baby until you come and then you can take her home.". She was very comprensive, why should she be lying? She is a nun. So the girl trusted her and left the hospital.

When the new parents arrived, Sor Maria took the baby and gave it to the new rich parents. What she didn't expect at all was the real mother coming back to take the baby home. But she arrived and the baby wasn't there. The nun said she didn't remember her and that she was crazy, that if she didn't stop she would call the police.


Another case explained in these two chapters it's a different kind of stealing. The girl had the baby at the hospital and seconds after the baby was born, Sor Maria took her and said she didn't breathe good, yet the mother was hearing her crying. Then the doctor Vela and the nun told the mother the baby died and the girl stressed to see her little dead baby. Then, the nun went to a private side and opened a freezer; there were one female baby and one male to prove them the baby was actually dead.
And sadly, this of the two babies in the freezer happened.



Dr. Vela used to be the one that made the papers of death and born of everything. The nun used to have control of every place where there were pregnant women and steal the babies and give them to their new families, who used to pay a lot for them.

Neither the pregnant women and the rich families knew the babies were stolen. 



At the beggining of this year, some people started to suspect what happened. All those mothers whose child was stolen never believed they were dead. Then everyone started to know about it, the media started to explain it and suddenly all those families started to fight. All those childs that knew they were adopted and all those childs that knew they have a twin somewhere out there. No one gave up.
The nun said several times she didn't remember anything about it but that "It was stupid to look after them" because "Maybe the childs are searching for their parents and when they find them they will see they have more children and they won't want to know about them". With that she showed she really remembered everything.

But this woman died when everything was going to be uncovered. 
Last week these two chapter were in TV and a new TV programme about this started. They show videos about brothers and sisters looking after their twins, parents explaining the day their baby was born in case there is one that can feel identificated... And people goes to there too. A supposed mother and a supposed daughter that are waiting for the DNA results and parents explaining their case, for example.