Baby Broker

True Weird Stuff

Baby Broker

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Published on Jun 14, 2024, 11:00:00 PM
Total time: 01:25:16

Episode Description

Today's True Weird Stuff - Baby Broker

 

Georgia Tann was a social worker who ran a child kidnapping and adoption scheme starting in 1924. Georgia ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, and for over 20 years she would take children from poor families and sell them to wealthy families for a hefty profit. She would even steal newborns from mothers in prisons and mental wards. Georgia Tann stole over 5,000 children during the course of her black-market baby ring.

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