Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Eager to hug her sister, she said she is trying to learn English to better communicate with her, but that all she knows how to say is “yes.” Hastings was told as a child that she was adopted, but a few months ago discovered she was part of a child abduction network with branches around the world, including the United States, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. Hastings said she didn't initially want to search for her family until she read a news article about the trafficked children, which led her to connect with Connecting Roots. The family searched intensively for Frutcher for more than 33 years since the start of social media, said Vladimir Figueroa, 39, one of Frutcher's eight siblings. The truth “was much more sinister than we had been told,” Graf said, saying the official version was that his mother's family was too poor to support him.