Man reunites with his mom after being taken as a baby and adopted to a US family.

It was a reunion decades in the making. At the airport in Santiago, Kyle Adler and his biological mother met for the first time this year after he was stolen from her as a baby in Chile. I'm not just the son that you lost, I'm the son that you found and I'm back to being your son. For nine years, he's wrestled with the news that he was illegally adopted in 1990 at nine months At the time, Navarrete was a 19-year-old single mother in the city of Coronel. She had hired a caretaker and when she returned from work, her baby was gone. In the 1970s and 80s, thousands of counterfeit overseas adoptions occurred in Chile during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Mothers had their children taken at the first doctor visit and dropped their child off and the nurses never came back with their child. Connecting Roots, a non-profit that helps adopted Chilean Americans find their birth parents, teamed up with a genealogy platform called MyHeritage. They provided a DNA kit that confirmed Adler was the biological son of Ana Maria. As for the adoptive parents that took in the stolen Chilean babies in the 1970s and 80s, many of them never doubted the legitimacy of the process or ever learned the truth. My parents didn't steal me. They didn't name me Kyle out of malice. They saw me as who they wanted me to become and, you know, there's a lot of love that was put into that. Adler's adoptive parents both passed away in 2022. But he now hopes his birth mother is able to forgive herself and that she trusts that this time he's here to stay.