After 40 years apart, a Chilean mother reunites with two children stolen during dictatorship
Four decades after a brutal separation, Teresita de Jesus Padilla was able to embrace two of her children again, after they were taken from her native Chile by hospital workers in one of the thousands of illegal adoptions under the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
TL;DR
- Teresita de Jesus Padilla reunited with two children after 40 years.
- The children were taken from her native Chile by hospital workers.
- This occurred during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
- Thousands of illegal adoptions took place during this period.