SANTIAGO — A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has travelled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time. 'She didn't know about me because they took me at birth and told her I was dead,' Jimmy Lippert...
Jimmy Lippert Thyden, who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States and Maria Angelica Gonzalez, his biological mother, meet in Valdivia, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on Aug 29, 2023.1:33 AM
SANTIAGO — A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has travelled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time. "She didn't know about me because they took me at birth and told her I was dead," Jimmy Lippert Thyden said in a TikTok video while on the plane to meet his mother for the first time. "When she asked for my body, they told her they had disposed of it.
Nos Buscamos founder Constanza del Rio created the organisation after failing to find information about her own biological family. The NGO says it has managed to help some 400 people reconnect to their family. "This case is one of hundreds or thousands of cases of child trafficking during the dictatorship and democracy," del Rio said. "These children were declared as dead and sold to foreigners for US$10,000 or US$15,000."
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