Child Abductions

In the total war that ravaged El Salvador, children became the target of oppotunistic abductors. When fighitng broke out, militants on both sides would use to chaos of the battle to seize children from their homes. 

Some soldiers claimed these children as their own, others were sold through illegal adoption agencies and even more were sexually and physically abused. 

Because the abductors wanted to create the illusion that these children simply disappeared, quantitative data is consequently non-existant, thus making it nearly impossible to account for and recover these lost children whom are now, adults with little knowlege of their past.

Many of these children who, as the state claims, 'disappeared', were never recovered by their families. However in a 2007 Boston Globe article, Joseph Kahn tells the story of Suzanne Berghaus, who was reunited with her family 24 years after her kidnapping during the civil war thanks to advances in DNA technology, and a miraculous bout of luck, cases like Berghaus' are rare, but still serve as a beacon of hope for others whose children remain lost to them.