Chapter 12-Who is Dr Bartucca and his henchmen?

Chapter 12-Who is Dr Bartucca and his henchmen?

From Nothing personal by Natalie K

October 22, 2023 · 13 min

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities and legal implications surrounding illegal adoptions and baby trafficking through a personal narrative.

“Your birth certificate is fake”, “your adoption is illegal”, “if they ask you at school, your mother is from  Argentina”. Since I was a little girl, they told me that I was adopted and that it had been an illegal adoption. According to what my parents said, the story was the following: A mother from my brother's kindergarten had told my mother that there was a baby who needed to be adopted, so my mother went  with my father and my brother to the other side of town, close to downtown Buenos Aires, to pick me up at a doctor's private practice. They were always afraid that people would find out about it, because they thought they were going to be put in jail for it. It wasn't until 2018 that I found out that the crime of baby trafficking expires after 12 years, which is completely absurd, but then again, so is this world. No 12 years old or younger child is going to go around suing their own parents for having illegally adopted or appropriated them. In case you wonder about the legal consequences the doctor would face, well, that’s even milder. He would just have to face charges for birth certificate fraud, which is considered a misdemeanor. Big difference in the case…

People in this episode

Host: Natalie K

Topics covered

  • adoption
  • baby trafficking
  • legal consequences
  • identity
  • family
  • human rights

Keywords

  • adoption
  • baby trafficking
  • birth certificate fraud
  • military dictatorship
  • human rights
  • Buenos Aires

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: military dictatorship

Places: Argentina, Buenos Aires

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