Man kidnapped at birth in Chile reunited with family 42 years later - BBC News

[@SourDoughBill]

Very articulate and thoughtful man. My best wishes to him and his extended family.

[@lokichakra]

A beautiful story. I also appreciate the newsreader’s handling of the guest in a compassionate manner.❤

[@kap1526]

It is a tragic story, with a hopeful ending.

[@HCUK677]

Amazing news presenter, actually checking in with him rather than a pure pump of information with no remorse. Class act 👏

[@Helen-eh9tk]

It's a heart-broken story. I am really grateful that he finds his family and also he raised in a peaceful environment. Many babies dont have that chance.

[@kaioiamo1503]

These people who adopt these babies need to be accountable.

[@karenmbbaxter]

@@kaioiamo1503 Excuse me......do U hear yourself? Do U understand how this all works because I DO.......many, many years ago the government in America worked with other governments to ONLY be able to adopt children who have been reliquished by their parents.......a lot of these rules are under The Hague Convention.......Before DNA testing was available some in these countries might steal a baby and say it is their and then hand the baby over to an orphanage and they have to check these children were abandoned.......Under dictators like Pinochet it was hard for any orphanage to check anything and if a child was left at their doorstep and nobody returned they didn't know where to look or how to track down parents......American adoption agency work in good faith with other countries to check that these babies have been abandoned but with someone like Pinochet in charge of Chile and the time EVERYTHING was corrupted.......So the American family who adopted this child thru and American agency would have done so with the understanding this child has been reliquished by their parents.

[@catalinacurio]

Nothing breaks the bond between mother and son. You get to know her, appreciate and enjoy, you can’t bring back the lost years but you can go forward together. ❤❤

[@Suggsonbass]

just the photos bring tears to my eyes. He speaks with such eloquence and softness about this complex and anguished predicament

[@mirahsamiyahrajwan7903]

Cruelty beyond my understanding. To steal a newborn baby, probably for money profit... Unforgivable!

[@public.public]

Extreme right wing coup 9/11/73 supported by USAmerica. Kissinger should pay compensation.

[@robertkirchner7981]

It was done by the right wing dictatorship of Chile which was supported by the US and Britain.

[@griffe4045]

The mama must so relieved to know his son is alive and well. 😊❤

[@tettymarlina7903]

He is a true & honest & brought minded to accept what already had happened to him...still there is a blessing indisguise from a tragic life experience and he sees it clearly & could feel grateful what had happened

[@scottishguy924]

aw bless them both so sorry you were taken away from your mum :(

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[@Isclachau]

Go away Bot

[@sharonsmiler4938]

Heart breaking and heart lifting all at once xxxx

[@MajidAli-p7m]

I love BBC news you share best and realistic story ❤❤❤

[@car4up1]

I am from Chile and I was just born 1973, our 9/11 wasn't the same as the US. Many killed and persecuted and and exiled that's we had to flee to Argentina in lived in refugee camps until they sent us to Canada. My point is that from what I remember after the coup in Argentina after many military raids people and children of whom I played with were gone. Operation Condor. Many killed or spared and many children adopted illegally in latin America in the 70's and 80's to other countries.

[@V.E.R.O.]

I like how he refers to her as "my mama".

[@romaungmaung7259]

It's an incredible story. I never heard this kind of story.

[@shari9721]

1000's and 1000's of babies and kids from many places in the world were stolen and kidnapped and then illegally adopted . it happened in the US , in Canada , in Ireland young girls who were pregnant were sent away to give birth and many were lied to and told their baby died and many were forced to give their baby up .

[@itsbonkerjojo9028]

Wow . This is absolutely astonishing in wonderful manner

[@optimeg]

This is why it should be mandatory to do maternity and paternity testing at birth. The consequences are massive.

[@merle-wq9ir]

These situations are so sad on the one hand and mostly ok on another level. Complex emotionally. 😢 glad everyone has come out on top in this case. Wish them the best. ❤

[@pradeeptudu5974]

Incredible story

[@tallthinwavy3]

Found my birth Mom eventually after taking a DNA test on2018. Talked to her on 2020 and met her on 2021. Get a DNA test, never know what you find.

[@Hulk277]

❤❤❤

[@HonkyReduction-b2g]

Who cares?

[@asitis7624]

​@@HonkyReduction-b2gI do

[@caiopoggers]

What else is a Dna test useful for apart from this

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[@annafarago6527]

Such a heartbreaking story. No one has the right to kidnap a baby for obviously money. Very cruel.

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

It is complex, but ultimately this is a dream scenario for anyone who suffers such circumstances. To learn your dead child has actually not died, but grown up in a loving environment and had a beautiful family. Easy to think “what if”, but the reality could’ve been so, so much worse , I hope they can find peace in that

[@kaioiamo1503]

No people can stop stealing and buying babies from agencies with no proof of how they got the baby.

[@wolfheart3126]

God bless he’s home I couldn’t imagine the pain his family went through. May god bless the rest of the years he has with his family thank you lord for bringing him home in Jesus Christ mighty name amen

[@Truthseeker371]

Happy ending. Take action against the wrong doing authorities once settled.

[@jc20012]

How do you repay a mother whose child you (the government) were complicit in stealing from her? You damn well should try!

[@AnimationFanboy2k4]

Respect.

[@kaioiamo1503]

I always say with these international adoptions that a person will miss the life they should have had. The language and culture they should have known. And Ethiopian adoptee said she would have rather been left in an orphanage in Ethiopia. That’s why I commend Angelina Jolie. She made sure they knew the language and culture and they all go back to their country. And to think he was kidnapped. This happens so much. In Kenya this happens as well. They sell babies!!!!!! But who is buying????

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

Thanks for all the ‘orphans’ mister Kissenger!

[@freezing5]

The most cruel: taking advantage of a helpless infant, who is unable to run to safety from the clutches of greedy criminals. Please, please do not go on how the child was better off in the West somewhere.

[@robertkirchner7981]

This was not done by criminals, but by the Pinochet dictatorship.

[@freezing5]

@@robertkirchner7981 We are both correct: the organized criminal dictatorship.

[@titteryenot4524]

42. The answer to life, the universe and everything.

[@Meursault_Nakata]

nice reference, bud.

[@blakewilliams5627]

Is there a bigger story behind this, about kidnappings and adoptions from Chile? Update- after the video ended, I was recommended a video about another man who was kidnapped from Chile and put up for adoption. Update 2- they say the Chilean government was behind it, and the other guy was also stolen from the hospital.

[@Isclachau]

It’s the BBC. Nothing it reports is based on facts.

[@chilenapromedioRU]

Yes. I'm Chilean born and raised during Pinochet's dictatorship. There was a network to steal newborn babies from vulnerable young mothers, specially single mums, teen mums and women from our originary people like Mapuche people in the South of the country, to give the babies in adoption to first world countries like Sweden (there was an adoption centre there that knew what was going on in Chile, that the babies were being stolen and the paid for them), it was all for profit, one of the main persons behind these horrible crime was a social worker called Telma Uribe, she's probably dead already, because she was very old when some journalists tried to interview her, If I recall correctly, prosecutors were able to obtain from her some records that she kept from the "adoptees". There were doctors and hospitals involved, even priests. The MO was to tell the mothers the child have died. Just like this case. In the Swedish case, they paid US $10.000 per child, which was entered as "administrative costs". There is an investigation that was made by the Swedish government about this. About 20.000 babies were stolen from their mothers for illegal adoptions during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, between 1973-1990.

[@freezing5]

Also huge during Franco's era. Other countries with oppressive, or less oppressive regimes copied the crime to make profit. Sri Lanka, Romania, former Yugoslavia, even Israel and South Korea.

[@robertkirchner7981]

THIS should have been included in the reporting for context. Talking about feelings is important, but the facts of history also matter.

[@hdzmiriam]

have you read about madres de la plaza de mayo? it's from argentina. this was systematic.

[@robinmyman]

Hi Mom! ❤️

[@Isclachau]

Sorry I was just sorting her out 😳

[@Cool12_782]

What a great wonder

[@ZM00716]

So his 'adopted family knew about this ?

[@t.s.n7971]

No they actually had no idea

[@shinjutsu2773]

...i dont wonna be a pessimist. BUt when he was kidnapped at birth. How does he have an emotional attachment to these people? How do the family know its the kidnapped child? Thinking back to some insane grifters in the past i can't help but be cautious

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

sad

[@allin77739]

Human trafficking has been going on for awhile...

[@markeddowes1467]

Well culturally he’s hyper - American ….all because of the awful Pinochet.

[@kevinjenner9502]

CIA backed Coup in Chile removed their democratically elected President Salvador Allende, and paved the way for Augusto Pinochet…9/11/73

[@public.public]

Kissinger should pay compensation.

[@chilesauce7248]

Allende was backed by the kgb, and through the sixties the soviets were manipulating Chile. Allende won on 1138 votes and only 30% aprox of people voted, he was thus chosen by congress which had been bought by the kgb. Allende ruined the country, after 2 years of misery, the people asked the military to remove him as he would not step down. The military saved Chile from becoming a Cuba, a Venezuela a North Korea. Whenever you see US intervention, it has been due to USSR meddling and a reaction to kgb subversion.

[@justincoleman7856]

For those people who are not aware, Jimmy is part of hundreds, if not thousands of children who were supposedly 'kidnapped' during the Pinochet regime because apparently Pinochet didn't like the leader at the time & ended up causing so much turmoil in their nation that some of their own citizens were executed for not supporting Pinochet. As a result, there was cooperation with the US at the time to help get some people out of Chile. So in general his story is unfortunately very complicated because of his original countries history. I am happy however that he was able to reunite with his biological family.

[@kaioiamo1503]

You really know how to spin things to stop westerners from being culpable for their crimes. You left a whole lot out of this story but then you have your biases clearly.

[@kaioiamo1503]

To actually put kidnap in parenthesis is incredible. It was kidnapping. An international smuggling for profit at the expense of the poor. They stole these babies as a part of a conspiracy to destabilize and stop socialism. And young idealistic college students were the Vicitms.

[@sanswelt8746]

Wtf are you talking about, there was no "cooperation with the US" to take people out of Chile. US was actually behind (and you can fact check this with several declassified CIA documents) the coup that installed Pinochet as dictator. And the dictatorship was behind this cases of kidnapping babies

[@maurorufatt3307]

That’s what happens with dictatorships. First we had an inept and authoritarian president that wanted communism for ever for the country, taken land,factories,banks and lives from people and then came the retribution by Pinochet with the approval of most of the population of Chile . It was a hard regimen with people killed and tortured with abuses of power from some people. Most people outside Chile were and still ignorant of what happened but they always have an opinion. I’m sorry for what happened to this family and many more. Unfortunately today the kidnapping of children and women in Latin America, Africa and also North America are even worse with no government giving enough in their policies to control this crime.

[@auro1986]

bbc got hot news from chile

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[@3TQHAJSHNQ]

How "petite" she was...? Weird.

[@vervetech9395]

It's okay.

[@sowgrowandcook]

Why is that weird?

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Let him cry, mrs the journalist…

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[@vice.nor.virtue]

"Thousands of babies stolen under Pinochet's Regime" ERMMM Would you care to elaborate on that so we have some friggin context please? That sounds like to big of a detail to just skip past.

[@3rdmm]

If you know nothing about the history of Chile, there's always Wikipedia as a starting point.

[@susanb4816]

It is youtube not university Google it

[@vice.nor.virtue]

@@susanb4816 It's called bad journalism. Myself and potentially millions of others shouldn't have to do homework because the BBC can't put a feature together.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

@@3rdmm I'm not doing homework just because the BBC can't produce a neatly succint and informative feature.

[@TangerineCreamsickle]

Pinochet’s dictatorship is common knowledge. The ignorance is on you.