Child Trafficking Victim Reunited With His Mom, 42 Years Later: 'Mijo, You Have No Idea the Oceans I've Cried for You'

Mark Ellis : Sep 6, 2023
God Reports

"The real story was these kids were stolen from poor families, poor women that didn't know. They didn't know how to defend themselves." -Constanza del Rio, founder and director and Nos Buscamos

(Valdevia, Chile) — [GodReports.com] A Virginia man hugged his biological mom for the first time this month after they were separated at birth 42 years ago as part of a child trafficking scheme known as "counterfeit adoption." (Image: via God Reports)

"Hola, Mama," Jimmy Thyden told Maria Gonzalez in Spanish, when the two met at her home in Valdivia, Chile, in August. "I love you very much," he said as they hugged one another, overflowing with emotion.

"Mijo (son), you have no idea the oceans I've cried for you, how many nights I've laid awake praying that God let me live long enough to learn what happened to you," Gonzalez told her son during their amazing reunion.

Thyden was born prematurely at a hospital in Santiago, Chile's capital, according to a report by Fox News. The baby was taken from Gonzalez's care and placed in an incubator. She was then instructed to leave the hospital.

When she returned for her baby, she was told he died and his body had been disposed of.

The child-trafficking scheme took place during the 17-year reign of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

It is estimated that tens of thousands of babies were taken from Chilean families in the 1970s and 1980s. "The real story was these kids were stolen from poor families, poor women that didn't know. They didn't know how to defend themselves," Constanza del Rio, founder and director and Nos Buscamos, told Fox News.

Nos Buscamos joined forces with the genealogy platform MyHeritage, which provides free at-home DNA testing kits for Chilean adoptees and suspected victims of child trafficking in Chile.

For his part, Thyden underwent an international search over many months for his birth mom. His quest began in April when he saw a news story about Chilean-born adoptees who had been reunited with their birth relatives.

He then decided to take a DNA test from MyHeritage, which confirmed that he was 100% Chilean. The test also matched him to a first cousin who also uses the platform.

Thyden sent the cousin his adoption papers, which included an address for his birth mother, a common name in Chile: Maria Gonzalez... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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