Doctors, nurses, nuns and priests are all suspected of having lied to parents. Spanish journalists investigating the racket have discovered a baby’s corpse in a fridge at a Madrid clinic at the centre of the allegations. It is feared dead babies were kept to show parents to prove their own child had died.
Enrique Vila, a lawyer representing campaign group the National Association of Irregular Adoptions, said it had uncovered cases of illegal adoptions in Spain which have been confirmed by DNA tests.
He said: “We think it was an organised mafia.”
Since the scandal came to light, workers at an undertaker’s office in Malaga have admitted burying empty children’s coffins delivered from a nearby clinic.
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