A Catholic nun has been charged with being part of a child stealing operation that ran over four decades in Spain.
Sister María Gómez Valbuena is the first person to be indicted in connection with the probe into more than 100 cases of babies snatched from hospitals between the 1950s and 1980s.
She was subpoenaed to testify before investigators recently but refused to answer questions, according to sources at the Madrid prosecutor's office.
Her name has surfaced in dozens of complaints filed by mothers who claim they were robbed of their babies after giving birth at San Ramón and Santa Cristina hospitals in Madrid.
Sister María was the assistant to Dr Eduardo Vela Vela, whose name also appears in the complaints filed by mothers.
Prosecutors have decided that there is sufficient evidence to file charges against Sister María in one case, based on a woman's testimony that her daughter was taken from her in 1982 after she gave birth at the Santa Cristina Hospital.
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