25 61. Argentine jurisprudence has signaled in a number of orders that, "in the selfdenominated period of National Reorganization, minors [of age] were abducted from the custody of their parents[, and this practice constituted] a public and evident act."57 The pregnant women detained in this context of counterinsurgency were left alive until they had given birth, to then abduct their children,58 while, in many cases, the children were handed over to families of military and police officers,59 after their parents were disappeared or executed.60                                                                                                                                                                       disappeared during the de facto regime, and the disappeared children in similar conditions. The report also contains the personal files of cases of abducted children and/or those born in captivity, Final Report of the Commission for Peace, April 10, 2003, annex 5.2 (Case file of evidence to the Brief of Pleadings, Motions, and Evidence, Folios 2115 and ss.); Testimony of Roger Rodríguez, rendered before a notary public of September 23, 2010, evidence, folio 5112. 57 Cf. Court of First Instance in Civil and Commercial Matters No. 10, Morón, Argentina, "Mónaco de Gallicchio, Darwinia Rosa c/Siciliano, Susana s/annulment of adoption." Expte. 275. Judgment, August 9, 1991. 58 Cf. In the judgement of crimes against humanity in the Case of Adolfo Scilingo, the Spanish National Court says that children were taken away to be educated away from the "ideology of their natural family environment,'" National Court of Madrid, section Three, c of April 19, 2005, Central Court of Instruction Number Five, available at http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/espana/juicioral/doc/Judgment.html, Last visited on February 23, 2011; in the final report of the National Commission on Forced Disappearance of Persons in Argentina (CONADEP), it mentions that babies "born again were usually" inserted into another family environment as an ideological choice of 'what should be their salvation,'" Cf. Final Report of the National Commission on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Chapter II, A.Disappeared Children and Pregnant Women, supra note 23,IACHR, Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OEA / Ser. L/V/II.74, Doc 10 rev. 1, September 16, 1988, Chapter V. 59 Cf. Judgment for crimes against humanity in the Case of Adolfo Scilingo, supra note 58: “Regarding children born in E.S.M.A., the families of sailors who would like to adopt a child had to contact the Task Force. This was carried out amongst the official record, in the wardroom it was said when there was a birth and whether it was male or female.” 60 Cf. Federal Chamber on Criminal and Correctional Matters, Sala II, Claim 17.890, supra note 55: according to the testimony and records incorporated to the Claim, a pattern could be established, [...] in cases where children were appropriated or not returned to the blood family, the parents of those children were killed or disappeared"; Historical Investigation on Disappeared Prisoners, in compliance with Article 4° of the Law 15.848, supra note 23, Tome III, section 6, pages. 679 and ss; Final Report of the National Commission on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Chapter II, A. Disappeared Children and pregnant women, supra note 23; Law 15.848, supra note 23; Law 18.596, supra note 8; Resolution of the President of the Republic No. 858/2000, supra note 23; Federal Court on Criminal and Correctional Matters No 1, Secretariat 2, San Isidro, Argentina, Claim No. 1284/85, captioned "Videla, Jorge Rafael et al. s/ alleged infraction of Arts. 146, 293 and 139, inc. 2nd. Of the Penal Code," available at http://www.desaparecidos.org/nuncamas/web/investig/menores/fallos2_06.htm, Last visited on February 23, 2011.

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