An estimated 500 children were either kidnapped or seized at birth from women in detention during the Dirty War.

The children were seized and often raised by the military that terrorized their parents.

The nineteen women and three surviving children were seized and held in several of the scattered huts.

The child was seized with a dreadful fit of coughing, which I expected every moment would terminate his frail existence.

Then the child was seized with resentment.

One official said the government would continue to avoid becoming involved in domestic disputes in which, for example, children were seized by feuding parents.

Men, women and children were seized from there and taken to woods outside town, next to a church school, and assassinated.

Pol's wife and child had been seized by the enemy.

Abductions are the rebels' preferred method of reinforcing their ranks, and since June 2002, 12,000 children have been seized.

Though 263 children were seized, within three years all had been returned to their families in what had become an expensive and unpopular public embarrassment.