Baby Snatchers

     Today was just like any typical day for me. I got in my car, drove to work, and unlocked the door to the bakery. As soon as I walked in I saw Dan the Decorator and he greeted me as he usually does. I was pretty disappointed when I heard the radio playing BBC World News because I wanted to listen to music. Since Dan was at work first I didn’t say anything. I was concentrating pretty hard on making and sculpting the perfect sized French bread for a while but then I heard a piece about baby snatching and it caught my attention. I can only imagine a couple’s complete devastation when they find out that they can’t make a human life together, couldn’t feel their growing baby kicking inside of them as they pick out names for him or her. For some adoption can take years and it is especially hard to adopt a new born baby. Some people want a new born baby so badly that they will do anything to get one. As the woman was talking about the upraise in baby thievery, she described a story about a man named Salvador, who believes that he had his baby stolen from him. He saw his beautiful baby girl as she was born. He said that a doctor came to him after her birth. His wife passed away after the birth and his child was still born.  He made the funeral arrangements and the baby and his wife were buried in closed coffin funeral. He had thought about this for years and regretted not making them show him his still born baby, now thinking that it was pretty suspicious that they didn’t show him the baby. After contacting a lawyer and police about his inquiry and doing much extensive research, authorities unburied his child, finding after testing the deceased child’s DNA, that the child in the coffin was a male,  when his baby was female, and the baby in the coffin was not a new born baby. Another instance where baby snatching was discovered is in Spain. Antonio Barroso said that he never really felt like he belonged to his family. Finally when he was 38 years old he discovered that his parents had purchased him as a baby. A friend of the family was dying, and on his deathbed he told Mr. Barroso that his parents, along with him and his wife, had purchased him and his son from a nun for “more than the price of a flat,” because their wives were unable to conceive and they desperately wanted to be parents. Antonio Barroso felt so confused, as if his whole life was a lie. I can only imagine how it would feel to find out that your parents whom you love so much, had purchased you under the table from a nun. It would make you question your parents’ moral and good will. I don’t think that I would be able to get over something like that. Apparently the babies were being stolen by doctors and sold to desperate people. It is weird to think about how wrong it is for them to steal the babies of proud new parents, and at the same time it is sad that they were unable to have children of their own and longed to be parents so badly that they had to buy their baby under the table like that.