Johanna Lamboley

She was adopted at the age of five and a half by a family in France.  

She had lived with her mother in prison in Chile until she was four years old, where her mother served a sentence for committing homicide in the context of domestic abuse.  

The end of her mother’s sentence had never been registered administratively in Chile, which prevented her from enjoying civil rights such as voting or traveling abroad.  

Later, her mother met a social worker, who offered to put her child, Ms. Lamboley, in a boarding school during the week so that she could work and pick the child up on weekends.  

In 1986, her mother signed a blank document which, she was told, would be her agreement for the care and schooling at the boarding school.  

However, this became an act of abandonment that would recount in a very crude way her incarceration and present her as having committed fratricide and presenting her as a prostitute.  

Ms. Lamboley said she did not see her mother again for 34 years.  

After adulthood, she discovered her Chilean identity papers and that she had a double identity, both in Chile and France.  

Today, Ms. Lamboley helped other people adopted from Chile in France in finding their biological families.  

She discovered new cases every day, which involved falsified stories about mothers, changes of identity, double identity and trafficking.  

She was adopted at the age of five and a half by a family in France.  

She had lived with her mother in prison in Chile until she was four years old, where her mother served a sentence for committing homicide in the context of domestic abuse.  

The end of her mother’s sentence had never been registered administratively in Chile, which prevented her from enjoying civil rights such as voting or traveling abroad.  

Later, her mother met a social worker, who offered to put her child, Ms. Lamboley, in a boarding school during the week so that she could work and pick the child up on weekends.  

In 1986, her mother signed a blank document which, she was told, would be her agreement for the care and schooling at the boarding school.  

However, this became an act of abandonment that would recount in a very crude way her incarceration and present her as having committed fratricide and presenting her as a prostitute.  

Ms. Lamboley said she did not see her mother again for 34 years.  

After adulthood, she discovered her Chilean identity papers and that she had a double identity, both in Chile and France.  

Today, Ms. Lamboley helped other people adopted from Chile in France in finding their biological families.  

She discovered new cases every day, which involved falsified stories about mothers, changes of identity, double identity and trafficking.