\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Former Buenos Aires province Police medic Jorge Antonio Berg\u00e9s, known as the \u201cdictatorship obstetrician,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
As a medic, Berg\u00e9s\u2019 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In past trials he was also convicted for torturing late journalist Jacobo Timerman and pregnant illegal detainees, some of whom remain disappeared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One survivor, Adriana Calvo, said that Berg\u00e9s forced her to give birth to her daughter Teresa in a car while she was being taken to the Pozo de Banfield clandestine detention center. He then made her clean up the floor of the room where she was placed after having her child.<\/p>\n
Calvo, who passed away in 2010, was the first witness to testify in the 1985 trial that convicted the military Juntas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her daughter Teresa Laborde Calvo wrote on Instagram: \u201cThe obstetrician of evil died without telling us where the babies he stole are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will hopefully rot in the annals of history like the human scum he was,\u201d Teresa said.<\/p>\n
Berg\u00e9s had spent time in prison on and off since the return of democracy in 1983. He was initially convicted for torture but released due to a 1987 law that stated that military and police members with lower ranks were not criminally responsible for the crimes committed during the dictatorship.<\/p>\n
Berg\u00e9s was arrested again in 2001 and convicted in 2004 to seven years alongside former police chief Miguel Etchecolatz for child and identity theft of Carmen Gallo Sanz, who was born in the Pozo de Banfield to a woman who remains disappeared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Berg\u00e9s signed a fake birth certificate and personally handed the baby to a family who raised her under a false identity.<\/p>\n
The medic was also charged in an investigation of the false imprisonment and torture of Jorge Julio L\u00f3pez in a La Plata police station in 1976. L\u00f3pez disappeared in 2006 on the day he was supposed to testify against Etchecolatz in a crimes against humanity trial. He has\u00a0 never been seen again.<\/p>\n
Muri\u00f3 el genocida Jorge Antonio Berg\u00e9s, m\u00e9dico de la Polic\u00eda. Jur\u00f3 cuidar la vida, pero se dedic\u00f3 a robarla<\/p>\n
Condenado a prisi\u00f3n perpetua. Su familia pudo despedirlo.
\nAc\u00e1 seguimos sin saber d\u00f3nde est\u00e1n nuestros familiares desaparecidos y nuestras hermanas y hermanos apropiados. pic.twitter.com\/We5PEjSVxw<\/p>\n
\u2014 H.I.J.O.S. Capital (@hijos_capital) February 10, 2026 \u201cHe swore to take care of life, but he dedicated himself to stealing it,\u201dhuman rights organization H.I.J.O.S. tweeted.<\/p>\n
The group, made up by children of dictatorship victims, questioned that while Berg\u00e9s\u2019 family \u201cwas able to say goodbye,\u201d they still don\u2019t know where their disappeared parents and stolen siblings are.<\/p>\n
Another dictatorship criminal passed away Earlier on Tuesday, H.I.J.O.S. wrote that Carlos Alberto Lorenzatti, former head of an intelligence department within the Federal Police, also passed away at 81.<\/p>\n
He was serving a 25-year sentence for torture, homicide and false imprisonment against 352 victims during his time working at clandestine detention centers El Atl\u00e9tico, El Banco, and El Olimpo.<\/p>\n
The organization questioned that he was serving his sentence in house arrest and died without giving information about the disappeared and their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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