2023-08-28 11:22:21
Chile
Here Jimmy (42) hugs his mother for the first time
Jimmy, 42, from Virginia, got to hug his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Chile. He was stolen by doctors as a baby.
Updated28. Aug 2023, 1:22 p.m
The video captures the moment Jimmy Thyden and his birth mother are able to hug for the first time in 42 years.
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Jimmy Thyden was illegally put up for adoption by doctors as a baby.
He therefore grew up with a family in the USA.
At the age of 42 he was able to hug his birth mother.
Between the 1950s and 1990s, around 50,000 Chilean children and newborns were forcibly separated from their mothers and put up for illegal adoption. The networks included doctors, midwives, social workers, judges and lawyers. The non-profit organization Nos Buscamos is helping to reunite those affected with their families.
María Angélica González gave birth to Jimmy 42 years ago. Immediately after the birth, he was taken away from her by the attending physicians. They were made to believe he was born too early and you have to put him in an incubator. She was later informed that her son had passed away.
Hesitant about DNA test
However, the nurse’s statements were not true. > writes that Jimmy ended up on a fake adoption network. Eventually he was adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States and grew up in Arlington. For four decades he believed he had no living relatives in Chile. That changed when he read a newspaper article about an American who was stolen and illegally adopted immediately after his birth in Chile. He began to worry that he might have met the same fate.
He approached Nos Buscamos, who asked him to take a DNA test. At first he hesitated. But then he thought of his deceased twin daughters. “The loss of my daughters was so traumatic for me that it almost ripped me out of this world,” he told USA Today. He then imagined that his birth mother must have suffered similar torments and that he would be a monster if he didn’t let her know he was alive.
“We will tell these stories”
Thanks to the My Heritage platform, Thyden found a cousin. This, in turn, was able to arrange contact with his biological mother, María Angélica González. However, the first contacts were difficult. Gonzalez has his Calls never answered, writes «AP News». It was only when he sent her family photos that “the dam broke”.
The trip to Chile soon followed. Jimmy was greeted at his mother’s home by 42 colorful balloons, symbolic of the number of years lost with his Chilean family. Thyden recalled his birth mother’s reaction: “Mi Hijo (son), you have no idea how many oceans I cried for you. How many nights I lay up praying that God would let me live long enough to know what happened to you.” A touching video shows them hugging each other in tears.
Thyden says his adoptive parents supported him on his journey to reunite with his lost relatives but are unknowing victims of a widespread illegal adoption network and are struggling with the reality of the situation. “My parents wanted a family, but never like this,” he said. He now wants to help other affected people to reunite them with their families. “We will tell these stories,” says Thyden, “until all the children are found or all the families are reunited.”
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