The Full Stop Law extinguished the possibility of criminal prosecution for crimes committed during the last dictatorship. However, its scope was not absolute; it did not include crimes such as substitution of civil status, abduction, and concealment of minors. The following year, the “Due Obedience” Act was enacted, which stipulated that those who had held ranks lower than colonel would not face punishment for their actions during the dictatorship as they were considered to have acted following orders. As was the case with the Full Stop Law, the law did not include in its scope crimes such as substitution of civil status, abduction, and concealment of minors. Later on, Pardons came for those who had been accused and convicted of these offenses.

Upon such a restriction to access justice, the crime of children misappropriation became the only crime against humanity that could be tried with no interruption from 1983 to the present day. During the impunity period – that went from 1987 to and including 2003 - 13 convictions were secured in cases of children misappropriation, and 21 people were tried as perpetrators. In 1998, Videla was arrested and brought before the honorable federal judge of San Isidro, Roberto Marquevich, who ordered his detention on the grounds that he was responsible for the crimes of substitution of civil status and misappropriation of five minors.