Children steal to do good? The Swedish adoptions from the time of the military dictatorship in Chile are finally examined in mor

Children steal to do good? The Swedish adoptions from the time of the military dictatorship in Chile are finally examined in more detail

From 1970 to 1990 around 2000 babies and toddlers were adopted from Chile to Sweden. In hundreds of cases, the children may have been stolen or taken under duress from their biological mothers. But in Sweden, the responsible institutions hesitate to deal seriously with the injustice.

David Henningson actually has a different name. And no, this is not about the usual phrase that journalists use to protect their sources on sensitive issues. Henningson actually had a different name: he was born Manuel Jesús Gonzales in July 1973 in a provincial Chilean town. Three years later he lived with his then eleven-month-old brother Gabriel in a children's home. The father was an alcoholic, the mother missing and possibly pregnant by another man. Social services managed to arrange for the brothers to be adopted to Sweden. The boys came to Gudrun and Bo Henningson in Halmstad. That's what the adoption papers say.