'A miracle:' Virginia man meets Chilean family 42 years after he was stolen as newborn

[Judi Lynn]

Jimmy Lippert Thyden always thought he had no living blood relatives. Then he came across a USA TODAY story about a man stolen from his mother in Chile and adopted out to American parents.

Amanda Lee Myers
USA TODAY

It's been 42 years since María Angélica González saw her son.

He was a newborn. A nurse told González that he needed to be put in an incubator because he was premature. Not long after, she returned with devastating news: the baby was dead.

For 42 years, that's what González believed. For 42 years, it's been a lie.

Gonzalez's son, Jimmy Lippert Thyden, was stolen from González, adopted out to unwitting parents in the United States and raised in Arlington, Virginia. For 42 years, Thyden believed he had no living relatives in Chile, where he was born.

Then one day in April, Thyden read a USA TODAY story about a California man who had learned he was stolen from his mother in Chile and illegally adopted out to an American couple. It got Thyden thinking, maybe the same thing had happened to him?

Within weeks, Thyden learned the truth. And last week, González finally got to hug her son.



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[Lovie777]

1. WOW...........

just wow.

[BWdem4life]

2. 20,000 plus stolen babies

[Duppers]

5. Unbelievable.

And sad.

[LakeArenal]

3. Latin America is America. Central America is even in North America.

I have Costa Rican friends that take umbrage to the US thinking they are the real or the only Americans.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. In all sincerity (though it would never happen), I feel our country..

Should rightly be named The United States and just drop the of America nonsense. Unpopular onion, I know.

[LakeArenal]

9. If you live in a Central American country. It's very real.

I call myself a US citizen because here they think they are real Americans. As do my relatives in Canada. And they ARE real Americans.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Precisely why I think "of America" should be dropped.

But I have had many Americans argue with me about this over the years. Too busy chanting USA to think it through I guess.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[Duppers]

6. Oh, the sweet joy of his finding his mama!!

Wonderful story!

Sadly, I don't doubt that such tragedies are still happening.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Short video appeared on MSN.com overnight of Jimmy Lippert Thyden meeting his birth mom.❤️️❤️️

USA TODAY
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A man who was illegally adopted at birth finally meets his mom after 42 years apart

American, Jimmy Lippert Thyden, who was illegally adopted as a newborn, finally returns home to be reunited with his birth family in Valdivia, Chile.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/a-man-who-was-illegally-adopted-at-birth-finally-meets-his-mom-after-42-years-apart/vi-AA1fCgl5