Spain's Stolen Babies

Journalist Katya Adler with Juan Luis Moreno, who was sold as a baby

Imagine a network of doctors, nurses and nuns who steal newborns out of the nursery as deceived parents grieve their “dead” babies. Spain is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and trafficking thought to have gone on for 50 years, right up to the 1990s and involving up to 300,000 babies.

This World reveals the impact of Spain's stolen baby scandal through the eyes of the children and parents who were separated at birth, and who are now desperate to find their relatives.

Exhumations of the supposed graves of babies and positive DNA tests are proof that baby theft has happened. Across Spain, people are queuing up to take a DNA test and thousands of Spaniards are asking 'Who am I?'

Katya Adler has been meeting the heartbroken mothers who are searching for the children whom they were told died at birth, as well as the stolen and trafficked babies who are now grown up and searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.

Produced & directed for the BBC by Katya Adler & Lucy Hetherington.