A Chilean judge announced this week the Chilean judiciary is moving to prosecute five people in connection with reports of babies stolen from their biological families and adopted out to families overseas in the United States and other countries.

Under the power of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s, some experts believe thousands of babies were taken and trafficked around the world.

For the first time, a judge in Chile, Aguilar Brevis is formally accusing five people for their reported roles between 1970 and 1990 in connection with ripping families apart and illegally adopting out children to unknowing parents.

Judge Brevis in a release this week ordered the capture and imprisonment of Ivonne Gutiérrez Pávez, Ismael Moisés Espinoza León, Carlos Sigisfredo Vega Seg

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