It was the first months of 2020 when Leticia Grimau, an Argentine teacher, decided to find out the whereabouts of the midwife who had helped her mother give birth.
But what she did not expect was the dark truth that she would discover after that innocent search. Just by typing the name of Ofelia Pintos Lemos, the midwife, Grimau found a note written by the newspaper ‘La Nación’, which revealed a network of child trafficking in which Pintos was a participant.
But none of that information made sense. Leticia had been raised by her two parents, in a small house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She had never lacked for anything and she had had an uncomplicated childhood.
Adoption?
The 43-year-old Argentine then recalled that, at 14, she had asked Nelly, her mother, if she was adopted. When questioned, the woman explained that she had undergone attempts at fertilization in vitrobut that in the end he had decided to adopt a little girl.
“I saw that my parents were much older than the parents of my classmates, even once someone asked me: ‘Did your grandparents come looking for you?’ Yor internally I realized that maybe I was not their biological daughterbut I didn’t know how to put what I felt into words,” explained Grimau for ‘Infobae’.
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According to her mother’s story, a family had not had the resources to take care of her and had decided to give her to another home. The photos of Nelly and Leticia happily sharing made the teacher believe the story and not ask more.
The midwives of horror
With Nelly’s death in 2009, she decided it was time to find out who her biological parents were. A DNA test later, Leticia discovered that she was not the daughter of any disappeared person, so he decided to stop looking for answers.
Eleven years later, with the covid-19 pandemic at its peak, the native of Argentina decided to Google the name of the midwife that appeared in her registry.
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‘The midwives of horror’, as they were called by the media in that country, were made up of more than 17 health professionals (doctors, surgeons, midwives and nurses) that were dedicated to the trafficking of babies and operated in six private homes in the city of Buenos Aires.
“A thousand things went through my head. At that very moment I stopped being ‘adopted’ and became ‘appropriate’. It was another slap to the soul. It was not just my case, something that had only happened to me in my lifebut it belonged to baby trafficking and there were more than 200 people in the same conditions, “she assured for the aforementioned media.
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According to Leticia narrates, the members of this shady team stole babies from helpless mothers and they sold them in exchange for a juicy reward.
The greatest disappointment of the children’s teacher was learning that her parents had paid a sum for her and had committed not only theft, but also identity substitution by falsifying her birth certificate.
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For now, Grimau just wants to find his biological mother to find out the reason for her abandonment: “What I have are holes in my history, I want to know if I was born of rape, if I was given or stolen, whatever”.
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