The Brief
- Kate Saar discovered she was one of thousands of Chilean babies taken from their mothers and sold for adoption during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
- A DNA test confirmed her connection to her birth mother, Paulina, who had been told her baby died after birth.
- The two reunited in New York after 41 years, a meeting made possible through the nonprofit Connecting Roots.
LONG ISLAND – A Long Island woman has learned she was one of thousands of babies stolen from their mothers in Chile during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and sold for adoption overseas.
For most of her life, Kate Saar believed her adoption was an act of love. She thought that maybe her birth mother was poor and wanted to give her a better life.
But that wasn’t the case. Saar wasn’t given up — she was taken.
“Never would I ever have imagined I was a part of something like that,” Saar said.…