(1 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago - 1 July 2024
1. Various of Jimmy Lippert Thyden González walking in Santiago Supreme Court halls
2. Jimmy Lippert Thyden González filing criminal complain to Court of Appeals ++PART COVERING SHOT THREE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago - 27 June 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Lippert Thyden González, Victim of illegal adoptions:
“Children and mothers deserve to be protected by their government. Every single one of these children was let go out of the country into the world, through that court system. So there's a lack of protection that happened."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ellicott City, Maryland - 8 May, 2024
4. Jimmy Lippert Thyden González and his biological mother Maria Angelica González ++PART COVERING SHOT 5++
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Angelica González, Jimmy Lippert Thyden González's birth mother:
"It was shocking for me. To know after 42 years that my son was alive.”
6. Jimmy Lippert Thyden González and his biological mother Maria Angelica González
STORYLINE:
A Chilean-American raised in the United States filed a criminal complaint against Chile on Monday, alleging that the South American country engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
The case filed by 43-year-old Jimmy Lippert Thyden González aims to advance the task of Chilean prosecutors and human rights groups working on accountability for crimes committed under Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
On Sept. 11, 1973, Pinochet led a coup to overthrow Marxist President Salvador Allende, ushering in a period of brutal repression until 1990 during which at least 3,095 people were killed and tens of thousands more were imprisoned and tortured for political reasons.
Little more than a year after learning about his origins as one of thousands of Chilean adoptees taken from their biological parents without consent during Pinochet’s dictatorship, Thyden González lodged his lawsuit in Santiago, Chile’s capital.
He did it at a pivotal moment.
On Monday, a new judge assumed control over the judicial investigations into the dictatorship’s child-trafficking operations, the latest action as the left-wing government of President Gabriel Boric seeks to strengthen Chile’s accountability efforts.
Thyden González, a lawyer and former Marine who was raised in Virginia, said children and mothers deserve to be protected by their government but that wasn't the case for tens of thousands of children.
Last year, with the help of Nos Buscamos, a Chilean nonprofit facilitating the reconnection of families severed by coerced adoptions, Thyden González managed to track down and hug his birth mother, Maria Angelica González.
She last glimpsed her newborn son being whisked away in a Santiago hospital ward.
Medics had told her that her premature son died shortly after delivery and that they had buried him while she recovered in the hospital.
In reality, baby Thyden was given up for adoption to a family in the United States — one of the thousands of illegal overseas adoptions in Chile that predated Pinochet’s dictatorship but increased during his 17 years in power.
According to reports from the Chilean judiciary obtained by the AP, there were some 20,000 cases of coerced or criminal adoptions overall.
Civil society organizations such as Nos Buscamos estimate that more than 50,000 Chilean families have been affected.
It took until 2017 for Chile to launch judicial investigations into the chilling practice.
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