0:00:07 > 0:00:12Spain is reeling from an avalanche of shocking allegations
0:00:12 > 0:00:14of baby theft and baby trafficking,
0:00:14 > 0:00:16recently revealed to have gone on for decades.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20THEY DEBATE IN SPANISH
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Graves are being exhumed,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31their contents exposing the cynical deceits
0:00:31 > 0:00:33used to trade in human life.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38TRANSLATED: Why was she so cold? She was completely frozen.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Since the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of thousands of babies
0:00:49 > 0:00:53are believed to have been trafficked by nuns, priests and doctors.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55SPEAKS SPANISH
0:00:55 > 0:00:57I've been meeting the heartbroken mothers,
0:00:57 > 0:01:02now searching for the children they'd been told had died at birth.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07TRANSLATED: I'm convinced they didn't bury my baby.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09I have always doubted the boy died.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12He's alive in my heart.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17And the stolen and trafficked babies, now grown up,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20who are searching for their biological families
0:01:20 > 0:01:21and their true identity.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25TRANSLATED: We want to know the truth.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28I want her to be honest and tell me who our mothers are.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32While there's hope of emotional reunions for some,
0:01:32 > 0:01:33the victims are reeling,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37asking themselves the most fundamental of questions.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Where do you come from?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Are you completely Spanish, are you half Spanish,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44are you even Spanish, what...what are you?
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Madrid housewife Manoli Pagador has three daughters.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02And lots of grandchildren.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06But she's never got over the loss of her first born,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08a son, nearly 40 years ago.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12TRANSLATED: When they first told me he died,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14for me that was the worst thing on earth.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16My world collapsed.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21From that moment on, I no longer existed.
0:02:24 > 0:02:30In April 1971, Manoli gave birth to a seemingly healthy baby boy
0:02:30 > 0:02:32in the O'Donnell Hospital in Madrid.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40The birth seemed to go well, with no complications,
0:02:40 > 0:02:45but it's the horror of what happened next that's haunted Manoli ever since.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I said, "Aren't you going to give him to me?
0:02:49 > 0:02:52"No?" They said, "No, no.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54"We need to take him down to see the doctor".
0:02:58 > 0:03:01At first, I heard a baby crying.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03However, that crying went away.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05It went further and further away.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17And then, nine hours later,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20a nun arrived and she just said,
0:03:20 > 0:03:22"Your baby's died."
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Manoli and her husband never believed their baby died.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Like many other parents across Spain
0:03:39 > 0:03:41with strikingly similar stories,
0:03:41 > 0:03:43they believe their child was stolen.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47I have always doubted the boy died.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49He's alive in my heart.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Until recently, some members of Manoli's own family doubted her.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01But her eldest daughter, Mar,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04now believes passionately that her brother was stolen
0:04:04 > 0:04:07and she's turned detective in an effort to find out the truth.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14TRANSLATED: My mother has told me her story many times.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19How she had her baby and how they treated her.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24I feel so much anger, so much.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Right now, I'm living in a bubble and looking for my brother,
0:04:29 > 0:04:33I think it will be us victims who will do the investigation,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I can tell you that now.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Recent events in Spain have given Manoli and Mar,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42and thousands like them, new hope.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45IN SPANISH:
0:04:48 > 0:04:49In January this year,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52hundreds of Spaniards who believe they were the victims
0:04:52 > 0:04:53of mass baby trafficking,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57launched a campaign demanding a national investigation.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01They alleged a trade involving many thousands of Spanish infants,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04including cases of organised baby theft.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06The volume and similarity of their stories
0:05:06 > 0:05:08shocked the country.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16The campaign was spearheaded by Antonio Barroso.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Antonio Barroso and his childhood friend Juan Luis Moreno
0:05:30 > 0:05:33grew up in a small, seaside town near Barcelona.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Just recently, they discovered
0:05:37 > 0:05:39they were both victims of child-trafficking
0:05:39 > 0:05:42and they're now re-assessing their lives.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50TRANSLATED: That is the flat where I lived.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53That's my room, the one at the top.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00It was only when visiting his father on his deathbed
0:06:00 > 0:06:03that Juan Luis finally found out the truth.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07He said, "I bought you."
0:06:07 > 0:06:10That's engraved here in my mind and in my heart, you know?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13"I bought you from a priest here in Zaragoza."
0:06:13 > 0:06:16And he said that Antonio had been bought as well.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20And I asked my dad, "How much did you pay for me?"
0:06:20 > 0:06:22150,000 Pesetas.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24I cost the same as that flat.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Juan Luis then took a DNA test
0:06:29 > 0:06:34to see if his DNA matched that of the woman he'd called "mother" all his life.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37"Probability of maternity -
0:06:39 > 0:06:41"0.000%."
0:06:41 > 0:06:44I've been lied to, I've been conned.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Juan Luis and Antonio's parents
0:07:03 > 0:07:06weren't friends before they bought their sons,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09but after doing so, they often spent the weekend together,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11sharing a guilty secret.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15TRANSLATED: Well, it's like someone who buys two dogs.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Two friends that bought dogs
0:07:17 > 0:07:19and decided to go together for a walk with them.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26It was a false love. Everyday I'm more sure of it.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Most of Spain's trafficked children
0:07:31 > 0:07:34have no idea who their real mother's are.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Some were stolen from their parents,
0:07:36 > 0:07:40others given up, either willingly or not, by unmarried mothers
0:07:40 > 0:07:43who were stigmatised in Catholic, conservative Spain.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Juan Luis is haunted by the idea
0:07:45 > 0:07:49he may have been taken from his real mother against her will.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52TRANSLATED: To think that there is a mother out there,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55in Spain or Europe or somewhere in the world,
0:07:55 > 0:07:59whose baby was stolen, and we could be her sons...
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Gosh, it's very hard.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Juan Luis and Antonio believe they were stolen
0:08:08 > 0:08:11rather than given away by their mothers,
0:08:11 > 0:08:12but it's a difficult thing to prove
0:08:12 > 0:08:16as their birth documents are riddled with false information.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Since Juan Luis and Antonio launched their campaign,
0:08:25 > 0:08:29thousands more Spaniards who believe they, too, are victims
0:08:29 > 0:08:30have come forward.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33I've come to one of the many road shows
0:08:33 > 0:08:36set up by support groups across Spain.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40They're attempting to match the DNA samples of those desperate
0:08:40 > 0:08:43to find their blood relatives.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46IN SPANISH:
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Lawyers estimate that as many as 300,000 children
0:08:54 > 0:08:56were trafficked in Spain.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Parents are searching for their children,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11and children searching for their parents.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15TRANSLATED: Two days after giving birth, the birth was fine.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19I showed her to my husband. Nobody said she wasn't healthy.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Two days later, they came and told me that she'd died.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Something must have happened. I think they stole her from me.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Many of the people here say they were refused permission
0:09:31 > 0:09:35to see their baby, even after they were told it had died.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39TRANSLATED: They isolated us completely.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41My wife was told she couldn't see him
0:09:41 > 0:09:43because she could get a haemorrhage.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47"Why can't I see my son? Even if he's dead?"
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I didn't see him.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50It was my dream to have a son
0:09:50 > 0:09:52and now you think some other people
0:09:52 > 0:09:54are enjoying this child instead of me.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58I feel so powerless, all I can do is cry.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Some of the families who believe their babies were stolen
0:10:06 > 0:10:08have begun private investigations.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11And shocking evidence has emerged.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Babies' graves are now being exhumed across Spain,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18making for some disturbing discoveries.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21One baby's grave had just a pile of stones in it.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Another, only the remains of an adult leg,
0:10:24 > 0:10:28while the grave of a baby girl showed the bones of a baby boy,
0:10:28 > 0:10:32no relative at all of the distraught parents.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Spaniards are appalled, and as public pressure mounts,
0:10:35 > 0:10:37and the evidence of wrongdoing increases,
0:10:37 > 0:10:42there are likely to be many more exhumations in the coming months.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48While most of the exhumations have been done privately,
0:10:48 > 0:10:52a judge in Southern Spain has now ordered the first state exhumations.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56The Spanish government has appointed a national coordinator
0:10:56 > 0:10:59to oversee the issue Spaniards call "ninos robados",
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Spain's stolen children.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04IN SPANISH:
0:11:04 > 0:11:05TRANSLATED: Without a doubt.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- Many?- I don't dare try to come up
0:11:08 > 0:11:10with a figure myself,
0:11:10 > 0:11:14but from the volume of official investigations I would dare say,
0:11:14 > 0:11:15yes, there were many.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18This is a really serious matter.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21When it affects something as essential as your own identity,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23your right to know your origins.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25These are fundamental rights.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Spain's judicial system is now examining cases
0:11:31 > 0:11:35which took place between 1960 and 1990,
0:11:35 > 0:11:40but the origins of this tragedy are older and ideological.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41The longer you live here,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44the more you notice the huge shadows of the past
0:11:44 > 0:11:46that haunt Spanish society today.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49It's a legacy of 40 years of military dictatorship
0:11:49 > 0:11:51which only ended relatively recently.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54There's been a reluctance in Spain to rake over that past
0:11:54 > 0:11:56and so to come to terms with it,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59and that means that deep-seated divisions
0:11:59 > 0:12:02and a sense of injustice still exists in Spain today.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24In 1939, General Franco's Fascists
0:12:24 > 0:12:28seized power at the end of Spain's long and bloody civil war.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Franco immediately began a military dictatorship
0:12:31 > 0:12:34over a country that was economically devastated
0:12:34 > 0:12:37and bitterly divided along political lines.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41Franco's presence still looms over Spain today.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43His body lies in this haunting mausoleum,
0:12:43 > 0:12:47built for him by his enslaved enemies,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50known as the valley of the fallen.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56TRANSLATED: He said, "We are going to create a totalitarian state."
0:12:56 > 0:12:58That has no turning back.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Anyone who steps out of line is eliminated,
0:13:06 > 0:13:07either physically or socially.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Of course, this was all firmly supported by the Catholic Church,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15they were the two pillars.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Franco ordered the elimination of his enemies,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23the anti-fascists, dubbed "the reds."
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Thousands were executed or imprisoned.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Their children were placed with right-wing Catholic families
0:13:29 > 0:13:32or put into institutions run by the clergy
0:13:32 > 0:13:34and brainwashed with the Fascist doctrine.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Uxenu Alvarez was one of those "red" children.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49His mother died whilst under military interrogation
0:13:49 > 0:13:51and his father was later executed.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Uxenu was sent to a children's home in northern Spain
0:13:54 > 0:13:56where he was brought up by nuns.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02TRANSLATED: The flag of the Franco regime was always hanging there.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05We were all singing with our arms outstretched.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35They killed me in 1936.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Thousands and thousands of children.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40They destroyed us.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52It's estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 Spanish children
0:14:52 > 0:14:55were orphaned or simply removed from their parents
0:14:55 > 0:14:58and handed over to institutions or families that would give them
0:14:58 > 0:15:02an ideologically preferable upbringing.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06To seal the fate of the children of his enemies,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Franco personally enacted a new adoption law in 1941.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13It made it legal to name the adoptive parents
0:15:13 > 0:15:16as a child's biological parents on their birth certificate.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Infants grew up unaware that they were adopted,
0:15:20 > 0:15:22unless anyone told them otherwise.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27This deceit laid the foundation for the mass trafficking of babies
0:15:27 > 0:15:29that was to follow for the next 50 years,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32long after the fascists had lost power.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42While Spanish society continues to be rocked by the scandal,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45reverberations have been felt around the world.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51Randy Ryder lives in Texas, but was born in Spain in the 1970s.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53He had a difficult childhood,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56living between an unstable Austrian mother
0:15:56 > 0:15:59and an often-absent Texan father.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02The first half of my life I spent with my mother.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04She was an alcoholic.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08When she would drink, she would always talk about a woman from Spain.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11She would just say that, "You're not really mine,"
0:16:11 > 0:16:13and that...
0:16:13 > 0:16:18"I...um...got you from this very bad woman in Spain."
0:16:20 > 0:16:23But I always sort of wrote that off as just being gibberish.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31It was only by accident that Randy began to find out the truth.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32He was holidaying with his own son
0:16:32 > 0:16:35at his grandmother's home in Austria,
0:16:35 > 0:16:36when he made a remark
0:16:36 > 0:16:39about his child's lack of family resemblance.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40I said, "You know, Grandma,
0:16:40 > 0:16:43"he doesn't look a lot like us, does he?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45"He doesn't have a lot of our features."
0:16:45 > 0:16:49And at that point, you know, my grandma was already in her 80s,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52and, um, she looks at me, and she just says,
0:16:52 > 0:16:53"Well, you don't..."
0:16:53 > 0:16:56That's when she said, "You don't have my blood."
0:16:56 > 0:16:58I said, "What are you talking about?"
0:16:58 > 0:17:01and she said, "You're not...you're not part of...
0:17:01 > 0:17:05"biologically, you're not part of my blood, my family."
0:17:05 > 0:17:08And at that point, my aunt got up and rushed her into the other...
0:17:08 > 0:17:12into the house, and everybody started cleaning up the dishes,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15and, um, I almost fell out of my chair.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20When Randy confronted his father about what his grandmother had said,
0:17:20 > 0:17:24in the end his father admitted - he'd been bought.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26He finally said,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29"OK, you are.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30"But I want you to know
0:17:30 > 0:17:33"that we picked the best one out of the bunch."
0:17:34 > 0:17:39He even told me that he, you know, provided, like, 5,000 to pay for the birth.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43But births didn't cost 5,000 back then.
0:17:43 > 0:17:49I would say that a large percentage of that cash went to someone.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53That's equivalent to £16,000 in today's money.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Randy requested his birth certificate from the Spanish consulate.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02He was surprised that the people he knows were not his mother and father
0:18:02 > 0:18:05were listed as his biological parents.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08There's no indication of a person being adopted.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13The combination of Franco's adoption law
0:18:13 > 0:18:15and falsehoods in documents
0:18:15 > 0:18:19has left victims like Randy few clues as to their real identity.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29The families of those who believe their baby was stolen
0:18:29 > 0:18:33have also been following the paper trail.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36But years after the event, it's not easy.
0:18:41 > 0:18:46In Madrid, Manoli's eldest daughter, Mar, has been leading the search
0:18:46 > 0:18:49for the man she believes to be her stolen brother.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54TRANSLATED: I started to ask for documentation and saw that nothing matched up.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57I sought information from a doctor, from forensics,
0:18:57 > 0:19:01and what the documents tell me is not real, it is a lie.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07In one document, it says the baby died
0:19:07 > 0:19:11from an intracranial haemorrhage nine hours after birth.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13While in another, it states
0:19:13 > 0:19:17the baby failed to draw breath and was stillborn.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21This is Almudena Cemetery,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24which, according to documents Manoli now has,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26is where her son was buried.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29She's visiting the spot for the very first time.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32TRANSLATED: I think it was number 56,
0:19:32 > 0:19:34third grave.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36It's a strange feeling,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39but I'm convinced they didn't bury my baby.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Something tells me they didn't.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47After the birth, Manoli wasn't well enough
0:19:47 > 0:19:49to attend her baby's burial,
0:19:49 > 0:19:51but her husband was determined to.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55My husband wanted to attend his son's burial,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59of course, and they said, "No", that they'd take care of it,
0:19:59 > 0:20:00they would do everything.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04Being refused access to the funeral of their dead baby
0:20:04 > 0:20:07is a recurrent story with Spanish mothers
0:20:07 > 0:20:10who believe their infants were stolen.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12During Franco's rule and the years that followed,
0:20:12 > 0:20:16ordinary Spaniards were powerless in the face of authority.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Mothers didn't dare argue with hospital staff.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Strangely, Manoli's son's burial documents
0:20:22 > 0:20:27suggest his funeral was a rather elaborate affair.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Everything's on record as paid for,
0:20:30 > 0:20:32as if it were our burial.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38The flowers, the priest, everything,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41The small coffin, as if we'd paid for it.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44It didn't exist.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47The car didn't exist. The priest didn't exist.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Nothing existed.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52I don't think they buried the baby.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58After finding out where her son was supposedly buried,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Manoli was then told
0:21:00 > 0:21:03that any remains had been moved to a mass grave
0:21:03 > 0:21:05to make space for more burials.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08This means she can no longer carry out an exhumation
0:21:08 > 0:21:10for DNA testing.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Many of the wrongs associated with the Franco regime
0:21:16 > 0:21:19were laid to rest along with the dictator.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23After Franco's death in 1975, the major political parties
0:21:23 > 0:21:28agreed an amnesty to help smooth the transition to democracy.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33But this amnesty law has never been repealed,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36so attempts to investigate Spain's baby trafficking
0:21:36 > 0:21:38as a national crime against humanity
0:21:38 > 0:21:41have been rejected by the country's judiciary.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Critics argue this is evidence
0:21:43 > 0:21:47of the undying influence of Francoism in modern day Spain.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52TRANSLATED: In Spain, there are hundreds of thousands of people
0:21:52 > 0:21:54that yearn for the past
0:21:54 > 0:21:58and who think that the past can't be bettered.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Here, we haven't cured Franquismo,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05and, in certain aspects, we're exactly the same as before.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10Socially, this country carries a lot of lead on its wings.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13It's weighed down, and as long as that's there,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16the doves will not fly.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22With no national case, Spain's Attorney General
0:22:22 > 0:22:26has charged regional prosecutors with investigating individual cases.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28More than 900 to date.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35TRANSLATED: I think 35 years have passed since the death of the dictator.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38We have a professional and independent justice system.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Evidently, we still have problems from the past, social problems,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44but also personal and even cultural problems,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46and the policy of this government
0:22:46 > 0:22:48has been one of trying to solve them.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Meanwhile, Mar's own investigation is progressing.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58She's discovered a 39-year-old man
0:22:58 > 0:23:01she believes may be her stolen brother.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05He doesn't speak any Spanish and Mar doesn't speak any English,
0:23:05 > 0:23:09so they're going to chat using an internet translator.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Sounds simple.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13IN SPANISH:
0:23:19 > 0:23:20Hello.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39There's a lot of deeper intellectual stuff
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I think both of us would like to share with each other.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45But it's impossible in this medium.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49You can't express yourself on these things.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57SPEAKS SPANISH
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Mar was watching one of the numerous TV programmes
0:24:00 > 0:24:03dedicated to helping victims search for their biological relatives.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06'In 1998, what happened is that...'
0:24:06 > 0:24:09She spotted an immediate family resemblance
0:24:09 > 0:24:10in one of the contributors.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I saw him on television.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I thought, "Oh! This guy looks a lot like my father."
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I was a nervous wreck.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23After thinking for 40 years that my brother had died,
0:24:23 > 0:24:25I now find out that he could still be alive.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43Mar's clearly captivated by the idea of Randy being her older brother.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46But Randy is rather more cautious.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49I've questioned a lot,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52where she's been much more sort of blindly open
0:24:52 > 0:24:54to the idea that we're related.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I'll bring up small points of differences,
0:24:57 > 0:24:59such as me being born in Malaga,
0:24:59 > 0:25:01and her brother being born in Madrid.
0:25:01 > 0:25:06And what's the likelihood of the baby having been transported to the South?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10The likelihood may be higher than Randy realises.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14Many victims are now discovering they were moved around the country.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32The trafficking scandal has become something of a national obsession
0:25:32 > 0:25:36with dozens of hours of television devoted to it,
0:25:36 > 0:25:40shining an uncomfortable light on the role of the Church.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49IN SPANISH:
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Under Franco, the church assumed a prominent role
0:26:18 > 0:26:21in Spain's social services
0:26:21 > 0:26:23including hospitals, schools and children's homes.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Individual nuns and priests were ideally placed
0:26:28 > 0:26:30to organise trafficking of babies,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33sourcing them from mothers regarded as less suitable
0:26:33 > 0:26:36than the parents on their adoption waiting lists.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Eager to follow any lead
0:26:48 > 0:26:51that may help them find their real mothers,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Juan Luis and Antonio are going to the town of Zaragoza,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57to find out what they can from a nun involved in their sale.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05TRANSLATED: Discovering these things is very hard,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08and worst of all is the fact that the Church was involved.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10I didn't trust the Church before,
0:27:10 > 0:27:13but now I see it as public enemy number one.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20La Basilica...
0:27:20 > 0:27:24As boys, Juan Luis and Antonio holidayed here
0:27:24 > 0:27:26every summer for a number of years.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29But, for Juan Luis, this trip down memory lane
0:27:29 > 0:27:32has stirred mixed emotions.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37TRANSLATED: On the one hand, I remember it fondly
0:27:37 > 0:27:39because it meant the holidays were starting,
0:27:39 > 0:27:42but on the other hand, it's a sad memory
0:27:42 > 0:27:44because now I understand why we came here.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49To pay the instalments for the baby.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52The baby that had been stolen.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21While Juan Luis and Antonio stayed with their mothers,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23playing amongst the pigeons,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26their fathers went to pay their respects, and to pay off their debt.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35TRANSLATED: My father told me they would give the money to a priest
0:28:35 > 0:28:37who would come out from behind here.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40And, according to what Antonio's mother told him recently,
0:28:40 > 0:28:44it was one of the nuns who collected and distributed the money.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46Is that the nun we're going to see?
0:28:46 > 0:28:49Yes, the nun we're going to see.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52BELLS PEAL
0:28:53 > 0:28:56While Juan Luis and Antonio are hoping the nun will reveal
0:28:56 > 0:28:59who their biological families are,
0:28:59 > 0:29:02Mar and Manoli are putting their trust in science.
0:29:02 > 0:29:06For most victims of the scandal, the only way to prove beyond doubt
0:29:06 > 0:29:09a family connection, is to see if DNA samples match.
0:29:20 > 0:29:26TRANSLATED: Finding my son would be the greatest thing on earth.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29I used to say to my daughter that it was impossible
0:29:29 > 0:29:32and she'd say, "Yes, we'll find him, Mum, we'll find him."
0:29:32 > 0:29:37And now, with this guy, it seems more achievable.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45But, of course, it could be a huge disappointment.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50Across the other side of the world, in Texas,
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Randy is also giving a DNA sample.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10TRANSLATED: I'm losing sleep about the possibility
0:30:10 > 0:30:13that Randy could be my brother.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25I feel bad because it was me who contacted Randy
0:30:25 > 0:30:27and stirred up the family's emotions.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30This will be the first one.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45TRANSLATED: I mean, If it was him,
0:30:45 > 0:30:49I don't believe in God, but I would believe in miracles.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52After giving his DNA sample,
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Randy will fly to Madrid, to finally meet Mar and Manoli.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58They plan to collect their DNA results together.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07It's early days, but a handful of DNA matches have been made
0:31:07 > 0:31:11between stolen babies and mothers who were told their child had died.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13It's concrete proof that, for decades,
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Spanish babies were forcibly taken and then sold on.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28There are numerous support groups, blogs and websites
0:31:28 > 0:31:32where victims level allegations at individual doctors,
0:31:32 > 0:31:34hospitals and private clinics.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41The most notorious of these is the San Ramon Clinic in Madrid
0:31:41 > 0:31:45which was under the clinical direction of Dr Eduardo Vela Vela,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48widely described as being "ultra-Catholic".
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Dr Vela has been accused of running a baby factory,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01providing babies, on demand, to selected families.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05Ines Perez was a childless, devoutly Catholic married woman
0:32:05 > 0:32:10in her late 40s, who received the ultimate gift from Dr Vela -
0:32:10 > 0:32:12a daughter, also called Ines.
0:32:12 > 0:32:16Ines Snr had fostered two boys as a favour for her local priest,
0:32:16 > 0:32:18a childhood friend of Dr Vela's.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Dr Vela was asked
0:32:20 > 0:32:24if he could provide Ines with her own baby as a special thank-you.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Dr Vela agreed
0:32:26 > 0:32:30and asked Ines to fake a pregnancy, before being given the child.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34TRANSLATED: This man said to me,
0:32:34 > 0:32:39"Are you willing to pretend that you are pregnant?"
0:32:41 > 0:32:44I said, "Yes."
0:32:44 > 0:32:49Then I had to put on the padding. as if I were really pregnant,
0:32:49 > 0:32:52and he shaped what he had put on me,
0:32:52 > 0:32:55the padding on the front.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Everything was signed by him.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10The doctor did it at the time of birth.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18That document led to the baby being registered officially
0:33:18 > 0:33:23as Ines Snr's biological child, and the truth would never be known.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31TRANSLATED: It is very painful for me to think
0:33:31 > 0:33:34that I could have a whole family in another place
0:33:34 > 0:33:38that loves me, that have been looking for me, all this time.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40I feel repulsion!
0:33:40 > 0:33:43I would like him to feel at least once
0:33:43 > 0:33:47a modicum of the pain that he has inflicted on countless families.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53Hundreds of babies are now believed to have been trafficked
0:33:53 > 0:33:55from the San Ramon clinic.
0:33:55 > 0:34:00It was well-known to be THE place to go if you wanted a baby, fast,
0:34:00 > 0:34:02and had the means to pay for it.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Lali Carasco was one such woman.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09IN SPANISH:
0:34:17 > 0:34:21After waiting a year on Madrid's official adoption waiting list,
0:34:21 > 0:34:25Lali Carrasco and her husband were told they could get a baby quickly
0:34:25 > 0:34:28if they visited a nun, Sister Maria,
0:34:28 > 0:34:31who worked closely with Dr Vela.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35In return for the baby, Lali and her husband provided
0:34:35 > 0:34:39both Sister Maria and Dr Vela with payments, in cash.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49TRANSLATION: I think it was around 50,000 pesetas to Sister Maria
0:34:49 > 0:34:52and around 120,000 to Dr Vela.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00But I thought these were normal expenses of the clinic
0:35:00 > 0:35:04and for the mother's stay at the residency.
0:35:04 > 0:35:09This official receipt for birth expenses from San Ramon clinic
0:35:09 > 0:35:13shows the going rate at the time was around 27,000 pesetas.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16Lali and her husband were asked to pay
0:35:16 > 0:35:20more than five times as much to Sister Maria and Dr Vela.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22But where were the babies coming from?
0:35:25 > 0:35:29In 1981, Civil Registry sources indicate
0:35:29 > 0:35:32that 70% of women who gave birth at the San Ramon clinic
0:35:32 > 0:35:35were registered as "Mother Unknown."
0:35:35 > 0:35:38This was totally legal under Spanish law
0:35:38 > 0:35:43and was meant to protect the anonymity of unmarried mothers.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50But it was also widely used to cover up baby trafficking.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54Photojournalist German Gallego was working for Interviu magazine,
0:35:54 > 0:35:59in 1982, when they received a tip-off about unmarried mothers
0:35:59 > 0:36:03being coerced into giving up their babies for trafficking.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13TRANSLATION: There was a Dr Vela, who ran the clinic.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16We tried to speak to him to find out what was going on,
0:36:16 > 0:36:19but he absolutely refused to speak to us.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25However, some of the nurses there wanted to talk to us.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28They told us people would arrive to give birth,
0:36:28 > 0:36:31and another person would arrive and wait in a different room,
0:36:31 > 0:36:34and then that person would end up taking the baby.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42At one point during the interview, they told us
0:36:42 > 0:36:45that when women wanted to keep their baby,
0:36:45 > 0:36:49they were then told that their baby had been born dead.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52So I said, "Don't they want to see it?"
0:36:52 > 0:36:56And they said, "Yes, but we keep several babies in the freezer."
0:36:57 > 0:37:00German then arranged to return to San Ramon Clinic
0:37:00 > 0:37:03in the dead of night, to see for himself.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11This nurse opened the door, and we went through to a back room.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19And they opened the door to a freezer,
0:37:19 > 0:37:23and they showed me a child, a baby girl, that had been stillborn,
0:37:23 > 0:37:26but they kept her as a model to show people.
0:37:30 > 0:37:33It was horrible.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Interviu Magazine ran with German's shocking pictures
0:37:40 > 0:37:43and allegations of child-trafficking at San Ramon.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46They were expecting a bombshell,
0:37:46 > 0:37:50perhaps the start of a police enquiry, but nothing came of it.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57The only thing that happened was a phone call from the police
0:37:57 > 0:38:00inquiring about it, and they said they would investigate it,
0:38:00 > 0:38:03but they didn't investigate anything.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08We gave them all the information we had on Dr Vela and the people,
0:38:08 > 0:38:11the nun there, and nothing happened to any of them.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15At the time, if you were a doctor in Spain during the '80s,
0:38:15 > 0:38:17it was like you were God.
0:38:28 > 0:38:29I've come to Tenerife to see a woman
0:38:29 > 0:38:34who believes her baby was stolen by Dr Vela in the early 1980s.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38Her story is disturbingly similar to many women
0:38:38 > 0:38:42who say their child was taken from them at San Ramon.
0:38:56 > 0:39:00Dr Vela had sedated Elsa Lopez when she gave birth.
0:39:08 > 0:39:13When she came round, he was at her side with some terrible news.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22TRANSLATION: Dr Vela told me that the birth had been complicated,
0:39:22 > 0:39:25that the baby had had difficulties, and was not very well
0:39:25 > 0:39:28and he wasn't sure that she'd survive.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33I started to cry, and he told me,
0:39:33 > 0:39:36"Don't cry, because I'm going to baptise her
0:39:36 > 0:39:39"so that she'll go to heaven with the angels".
0:39:40 > 0:39:43And then he came back with that...thing,
0:39:43 > 0:39:47wrapped in a towel or a cloth or something, all wrapped up.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52So he brought the baby close to me.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55It was very pale. He said, "Give her a kiss".
0:39:55 > 0:39:58So I kissed her.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08Why was she so cold? She was completely frozen.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14Shortly after, Dr Vela returned, this time without the baby.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21He stroked me and told me, "Don't cry,
0:40:21 > 0:40:23"God has taken her with him.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26"It's better this way, because a child with health problems,
0:40:26 > 0:40:28"with disfigurements, would have been a burden."
0:40:35 > 0:40:38Elsa went on to have more children
0:40:38 > 0:40:41but she never believed her baby really died.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44To add to her doubt, Elsa's documents
0:40:44 > 0:40:47registering her baby's birth and death
0:40:47 > 0:40:51are riddled with inaccuracies and false declarations.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54In January 1977, Elsa had had a miscarriage
0:40:54 > 0:40:57and was treated at the San Ramon clinic.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01Now, in February 1981, the medical certificate
0:41:01 > 0:41:05for her supposedly dead baby, appears to be a crude forgery
0:41:05 > 0:41:08based on the documents from her miscarriage.
0:41:08 > 0:41:12TRANSLATION: To the lawyers, this just seems illogical.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15It's an evident forgery of information.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20Elsa is convinced she knows why she was targeted to have her baby taken.
0:41:21 > 0:41:26I probably didn't fit the right profile for Dr Vela.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29At the time, I was a divorcee,
0:41:29 > 0:41:35with a child outside marriage, and with a much younger man.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37I don't believe in God.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41I am a politically incorrect person because I am a woman of the left.
0:41:41 > 0:41:42Everybody knows this.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45I work with left-wing political movements,
0:41:45 > 0:41:48feminist movements in Madrid, and he knew all this.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Elsa is not the only mother who believes
0:41:54 > 0:41:56she was shown a frozen baby by Dr Vela
0:41:56 > 0:41:59as part of an elaborate deceit.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Dr Vela was able to run a baby factory for decades,
0:42:09 > 0:42:12producing babies to order, without being held to account for it, ever.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15We've asked Dr Vela for an interview, but he declined,
0:42:15 > 0:42:20as he's declined any such interview request over the last 30 years.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Now, by some strange coincidence,
0:42:22 > 0:42:25I gave birth in Dr Vela's latest clinic, Clinica Belen,
0:42:25 > 0:42:28here in Madrid, over a year ago now
0:42:28 > 0:42:31and that's how I've managed to get an appointment to see him today,
0:42:31 > 0:42:34as a newly-expectant mum.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42IN SPANISH:
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Dr Vela immediately assumed
0:43:08 > 0:43:12I was talking about the allegations of stolen babies.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27Dr Vela explained he was providing a service
0:43:27 > 0:43:30for women who didn't want, or couldn't keep, their baby.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Dr Vela then became suspicious.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01Dr Vela had clearly had enough of my questions, and headed for the door.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10When he returned, he was brandishing a cross
0:45:10 > 0:45:12and began quoting sections from the Bible
0:45:12 > 0:45:16in order to lambast the profession of journalism.
0:45:38 > 0:45:42Dr Vela denies any wrongdoing.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44He still claims that he was storing the baby in the freezer
0:45:44 > 0:45:47to carry out an autopsy.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51Medical experts we've spoken to say this story makes no sense,
0:45:51 > 0:45:54and would have clearly been in contravention
0:45:54 > 0:45:57of Spanish autopsy law at the time.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00The children adopted through the San Ramon Clinic
0:46:00 > 0:46:03have little chance of finding their birth mothers
0:46:03 > 0:46:07as Dr Vela claims he personally burnt all the files.
0:46:09 > 0:46:11Their only hope now is DNA matching.
0:46:13 > 0:46:18Manoli Pagador and her daughter Mar have come to Madrid airport
0:46:18 > 0:46:21to meet Randy, who's arriving from Texas.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27Tomorrow, they go together to get the results of their DNA tests,
0:46:27 > 0:46:30to find out if they are actually related.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35TRANSLATION: I'm nervous and excited.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38I'm happy because I'm going to meet him in person.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41Just talking about it makes my heart race.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56IN SPANISH:
0:47:02 > 0:47:03Hi. How are you?
0:47:36 > 0:47:38They waste no time introducing Randy
0:47:38 > 0:47:41to what might be his new Spanish family.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58TRANSLATION: I think he's lovely, really lovely.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01He'd be the perfect son if he were my own.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11A part of me says he could be,
0:48:11 > 0:48:14but another part of me is staying grounded and says it might not be.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17But I keep on dreaming. I'm hopeful.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21Um... You know, I'm scared.
0:48:21 > 0:48:26I mean, with Mar, it's interesting
0:48:26 > 0:48:28because I feel a connection with her,
0:48:28 > 0:48:31and it felt very comfortable to hug her.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34We've been speaking for so long over the internet
0:48:34 > 0:48:37that I do feel a connection to her,
0:48:37 > 0:48:39you know, I just don't know anyone else
0:48:39 > 0:48:44and I'm frustrated that I can't communicate with anybody directly.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03In Zaragoza, Antonio and Juan Luis
0:49:03 > 0:49:07are preparing to visit Sister Acunsion Vivas,
0:49:07 > 0:49:10a bedridden nun in her 80s.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14She's the only living person who might know who their mothers are.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36TRANSLATED: I want her to realise she committed an offence,
0:49:36 > 0:49:37and we want to hear it from her.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39We want to know the truth.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46I want her to be honest and I want her to tell me who our mothers are.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04Juan Luis begins by asking the nun
0:50:04 > 0:50:07what she can remember about payments.
0:50:28 > 0:50:32The sister admits she was involved in handling payments,
0:50:32 > 0:50:34but Juan Luis is more interested
0:50:34 > 0:50:38in finding out the identity of his real mother.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19The nun insisted Juan Luis and Antonio's mothers were unmarried,
0:51:19 > 0:51:23and so seen as sinners in conservative Spain.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26She said she saved them from being aborted,
0:51:26 > 0:51:29but she gave no hint as to their mother's names.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35TRANSLATED: Another visit, another disappointment.
0:51:35 > 0:51:38Every time I come here, she gives a little bit more information,
0:51:38 > 0:51:41but she gives you just enough to leave you in the lurch.
0:51:45 > 0:51:50Every Spanish person has the right to know their origins,
0:51:50 > 0:51:53and as such, I hold on to this right in the constitution
0:51:53 > 0:51:54and I demand it.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58I want the Spanish government to tell me where I come from.
0:52:01 > 0:52:07Lots of people are implicated, the church, judges, hospitals,
0:52:07 > 0:52:09there's a whole network.
0:52:09 > 0:52:13But what I'm seeing in these last few days is that this is too big,
0:52:13 > 0:52:17I think it's too big for Spain,
0:52:17 > 0:52:20or for the governing people in Spain.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26The Catholic Church refuses to comment on its role
0:52:26 > 0:52:29in Spain's stolen and trafficked baby scandal.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34While cases are investigated one by one,
0:52:34 > 0:52:36there's little doubt that the victims
0:52:36 > 0:52:39will find justice hard to come by.
0:52:43 > 0:52:47And unlike other countries with stolen baby scandals
0:52:47 > 0:52:51linked to a military dictatorship, like Argentina or Chile,
0:52:51 > 0:52:55Spain has never created a truth and reconciliation commission
0:52:55 > 0:52:59to help victims deal with the crimes of the past.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01TRANSLATED: Do you think there will be justice
0:53:01 > 0:53:03for the victims of child theft?
0:53:03 > 0:53:06I doubt it very much.
0:53:06 > 0:53:10Franquismo's a cancer that was in power for 40 years,
0:53:10 > 0:53:15and that cancer can't just be cured with an aspirin, called transition.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17That cancer's still there,
0:53:17 > 0:53:20and as long as it's not removed, it will carry on gestating inside.
0:53:20 > 0:53:27Spanish society knew this was happening and looked the other way.
0:53:27 > 0:53:30Would it not be a good idea
0:53:30 > 0:53:32to have a truth and reconciliation commission?
0:53:32 > 0:53:35TRANSLATED: I am not going to comment on the matter.
0:53:35 > 0:53:39And to abolish the amnesty law? You don't want to answer?
0:53:39 > 0:53:42It's not for me to say.
0:53:44 > 0:53:49In the end, all that Spain's stolen and trafficked babies
0:53:49 > 0:53:53and their mothers have to hang onto is the hope that DNA matching
0:53:53 > 0:53:56will succeed in reuniting their families.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05And the day has finally come
0:54:05 > 0:54:10for Mar, Manoli and Randy to find out the truth.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12I've spent a lot of time in recent months
0:54:12 > 0:54:15just sort of looking in the mirror and wondering "Who are you?
0:54:15 > 0:54:17"Where do you come from?
0:54:21 > 0:54:22"Are you completely Spanish,
0:54:22 > 0:54:26"are you half Spanish, are you even Spanish, what, what are you?"
0:54:26 > 0:54:30Every day that I've spent with them, we're studying each other,
0:54:30 > 0:54:34studying each other's mannerisms, studying the way we look.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43TRANSLATED: Today is a day beyond words, really.
0:54:44 > 0:54:49We love each other, we're comfortable together.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51He's looking for his family,
0:54:51 > 0:54:54we're looking for our boy, and everything is fine.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56That's it.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58But of course...
0:54:58 > 0:55:00No.
0:55:03 > 0:55:08TRANSLATED: I'm looking forward to getting there, and at the same time I'm frightened.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12If the answer's yes, I'll never leave his side.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15I'll hug him and no-one will be able to separate us.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19I won't let go of him. I'll even go to Texas with him!
0:55:29 > 0:55:31IN SPANISH:
0:55:32 > 0:55:34- OK. It's OK.- It's OK?
0:56:25 > 0:56:27It's OK.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30You'll find him.
0:57:24 > 0:57:30It's such an awful feeling, you know, they talked about it,
0:57:30 > 0:57:34the possibility that maybe, very possibly Randy wasn't the son,
0:57:34 > 0:57:36the brother they were looking for.
0:57:36 > 0:57:39But when that result comes, that final result,
0:57:39 > 0:57:41and you see their faces,
0:57:41 > 0:57:44and you know their lives, that were broken before,
0:57:44 > 0:57:47just feel a little bit more broken now.
0:57:47 > 0:57:51And this is happening all over Spain, the same process,
0:57:51 > 0:57:53that same heartbreak.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57You know, it's upsetting.
0:57:57 > 0:58:01I mean, there's more doubt than I had before.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04It might be better just to lay all this to rest.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10TRANSLATED: You can't just say to yourself,
0:58:10 > 0:58:12"I have to forget it and that's it."
0:58:12 > 0:58:13It's with you for the rest of your life.
0:58:13 > 0:58:18TRANSLATED: I'm going to take some time out.
0:58:18 > 0:58:22I'm more relaxed, thanks to the DNA bank.
0:58:22 > 0:58:25You can't do more than that.
0:58:25 > 0:58:27Of course, the search continues.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32If anything, this process has made me realise
0:58:32 > 0:58:35and these people have made me realise
0:58:35 > 0:58:38that there's nothing stronger than your real family. Nothing.
0:58:38 > 0:58:40And I really believe in that.
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