SANTIAGO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has traveled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time.
"She didn't know about me because they took me at birth and told her I was dead," Jimmy Lippert Thyden said in a TikTok video while on the plane to meet his mother for the first time.
[1/2]Jimmy Lippert Thyden, who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States and Maria Angelica Gonzalez, his biological mother, meet in Valdivia, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on August 29, 2023.
Lippert Thyden reconnected with his family thanks to a DNA tracing via MyHeritage.com and Nos Buscamos, a Chilean non-governmental organization which helps reconnect people separated during the 17-year dictatorship.
"This case is one of hundreds or thousands of cases of child trafficking during the dictatorship and democracy," del Rio said.
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