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ARCHIVED - Doctor involved in Spanish stolen babies case dies at his Madrid home
Eduardo Vela was found guilty of falsifying documentation but was absolved due to responsibility having expired
Doctor Eduardo Vela, the first doctor to stand trial in relation to the “stolen babies” scandal in Spain, died on Monday at his home in Madrid after a long period in ill health.
The trial of Doctor Vela took place a year ago, and it was clear at times that he was in very poor health indeed – too ill, in fact, to receive his verdict in person. That verdict was that he was found “incontrovertibly” to have been responsible for handing over a new born baby to a couple named Pablo Madrigal Revilla and Inés Pérez Pérez, but that the crimes of falsifying documentation, illegally taking the baby into his charge and others did not merit punishment because responsibility for them had expired since 1969, when the incident took place.
The baby concerned, Inés Madrigal, was the one to bring the case to court, and it attracted huge media interest as very few cases of “stolen baby” allegations during the regime of General Franco and in the years immediately after the dictator’s death have ever been satisfactorily investigated. As the years pass, and with the death of Dr Vela, it becomes increasingly unlikely that they ever will.
Earlier this year Inés Madrigal finally found out the identity of her biological parents after searching for 32 years and, after meeting her brothers for the first time revealed that in fact, strictly speaking, she was not “stolen” but voluntarily given for adoption by her parents: no money changed hands, and it would have been an injustice if Eduardo Vela had been found guilty of profiting from handing the unwanted baby over to loving parents. At the time she stated that “for the first time my life is complete”, despite the discovery being a bittersweet one as her true mother died in 2013, but for thousands of others who claim to have been taken from their natural parents and delivered to more “deserving” couples the chances of ever establishing the truth are decreasing.
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