A woman who became a crusader for babies abducted during Spain's 20th-century dictatorship said Thursday that she has found her biological family and learned that her mother gave her up voluntarily.
Ines Madrigal said that thanks to an American DNA bank she has found four half siblings five decades after her birth.
"I have four siblings, who are marvelous people and have opened their arms to me," she told a press conference in Madrid. "At last I have completed the puzzle of my life. Now I know who I am and where I come from."
"He should have registered my birth and he did not do so," Madrigal said. "He treated me like a puppy. The State never knew I existed."