The adoptive children of the Clarín media group director have agreed to DNA testing after their latest court appeal was rejected.
This morning the siblings Felipe and Marcela Noble Herrera informed Federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado that they will submit to a DNA testing to “put an end to the political and media harassment and persecution against them.”
Their genetic information will be used to determine whether they are the biological children of people who were disappeared during the last dictatorship (1976-1983). The test results will be compared to DNA in the National Bank of Genetic Data (BNDG), which holds genetic information of nearly two hundred families who were victims of the last dictatorship, and who hope to find babies who were stolen during the period.
In May 2010, Judge Salgado ruled that the children would be required to submit to a DNA test. In December 2010, their appeal was rejected.
This announcement marks a potential end to a legal battle that began nearly a decade ago. In 2002 the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo went to court to demand DNA tests from the Noble Herrera siblings, who they suspected had been illegally appropriated by their adoptive father, Roberto Noble. Although the siblings had previously agreed to conduct their own DNA tests and compare them to the two families who believed they might have a blood relation, they refused to have their DNA tested formally and compared with the BNDG.
Through genetic testing the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have found over one hundred children who were illegally appropriated from the disappeared. They estimate the total number to be over 400.
,,,well, should be interesting ,..though I doubt the results will be believed by the losing party, what ever the results are. It still seems a political and vindictive issue.