21 counterinsurgency strategy, there were other reasons, including taking children to give them up for adoption.44 54. According to the evidence received, the possible destinations of the children after they had been separated from their families and disappeared can be broken down as follows:45 (1) adoptions through a formal process within the judicial system, with the majority assigned to foreign families, mainly in the United States, France and Italy;46 (2) “de facto” adoptions or “appropriations,” consisting of cases in which Salvadoran families took custody of the children but never formalized the adoption;47 (3) cases of “appropriation” by soldiers,48 who included the children in their families as if they were their own, although in most cases the children were used for domestic or agricultural tasks;49 (4) children raised in orphanages without guardians, in which those in charge of them did not try to find their parents,50 and (5) children who grew up on military bases.51 In addition, although it has not been proved in a court of law, the Search Association has compiled evidence indicating that some disappeared children were victims of illegal trafficking.52 Finally, at September 2010, the Search Association had located 48 cases of children who had perished.53 44 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 2619/15); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/12); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, Report on El Salvador, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume V, attachment 12 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3541), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de la niñez desaparecida en El Salvador, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume V, attachment 13 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3584). 45 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/28); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/22), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, Report on El Salvador, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume V, attachment 12 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3541). See also, Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters, supra note 29, para. 48.6). 46 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/31), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/25). 47 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/32), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/26). 48 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/32), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/25). 49 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de la niñez desaparecida en El Salvador, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume V, attachment 13 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3584). 50 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/66). 51 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/34), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/22). 52 Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/33), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos…, supra note 34, (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3207/20). 53 Cf. Statistical data from the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda up until September 2010 (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 9 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3206).