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

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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