Former Buenos Aires province Police medic Jorge Antonio Bergés, known as the “dictatorship obstetrician,” died at 83, human rights activists announced on Tuesday. He had been serving a life sentence under house arrest in his home in Quilmes and was hospitalized at the time of his death.

As a medic, Bergés’ role during the dictatorship was to deliver the babies of women held in clandestine detention centers. He was also involved in the system that later gave those babies to other families. 

Human rights groups estimate that at least 300 stolen babies (now adults) have not yet been found and continue to live with a false identitiy. 

In 2024, he was convicted to life in prison for crimes including torture, rape, forced abortion, false imprisonment of politically persecuted people and children, homicide, and child theft.

In past trials he was also convicted for torturing late journalist Jacobo Timerman and pregnant........

© Buenos Aires Herald