{"id":1644,"date":"2011-12-03T06:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2011-12-03T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:03:09","slug":"300000-babies-stolen-from-their-parents-and-sold-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"300,000 babies stolen from their parents &#8211; and sold for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nUp to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco\u2019s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals are now battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.<br \/>\nSeveral mothers say they were told their first-born children had died during or soon after they gave birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain. Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}