BARCELONA, Spain — Antonio Barroso cried himself to sleep every night until he was 12, haunted, he says, by a taunt from other children: "Your mother isn't your real mother."
He asked his mother repeatedly, and even secretly checked his official birth certificate. But she insisted, and the documents confirmed, he was her son.
It wasn’t until 2008, when he was 38, that he discovered the lie: He was stolen from his biological parents and sold into adoption.
“My old friend Juan Luis called me one day and told me our parents bought us from a nun in Zaragoza." Barroso, 42, told GlobalPost, recalling the chain of events that changed his life. “It was his father’s deathbed confession.”...read more
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/spain/110930/spain%E2%80%99s-stolen-baby-scandal-photo
He asked his mother repeatedly, and even secretly checked his official birth certificate. But she insisted, and the documents confirmed, he was her son.
It wasn’t until 2008, when he was 38, that he discovered the lie: He was stolen from his biological parents and sold into adoption.
“My old friend Juan Luis called me one day and told me our parents bought us from a nun in Zaragoza." Barroso, 42, told GlobalPost, recalling the chain of events that changed his life. “It was his father’s deathbed confession.”...read more
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/spain/110930/spain%E2%80%99s-stolen-baby-scandal-photo
