The woman who became a millionaire by selling thousands of children in thirty years: Who is Georgia Tann?
Between 1924 and 1950, Georgia sold nearly 5,000 stolen children to people who worked them as slaves at home or in the fields.
Georgia Tann is among the most notorious human traffickers in recent history.
Georgia Tann was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1891 to a loving family. His family did their best to provide him with a good life and showed him love and affection.
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee.
Georgia's father was a judge. The young woman wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and become a judge. But his father did not approve of this request, as it was a very difficult task. She also decided to become a social worker and focus on helping abused children.
She originally worked in a daycare. She saw that there were many low-income families in the area unable to take care of their children and were persuaded to sell or give away their children.
There were several complaints about her, but she managed to get rid of them all.
In 1929, she was promoted to foster care manager. The largest economic collapse in US history also occurred that year. As a result, large parts of the population became impoverished and more likely to resort to desperate measures such as selling their children for as little as $1.
For example, in 1947, the famous actress Joan Crawford paid Georgia a large sum for her twin daughters Cathy and Cindy.
Some of the children Georgia sold were sold to pedophiles, as stated in the book The Baby Thief: Barbara Bisantz Raymond described these events in her book The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption.
Georgia Tann's sale of children earned her $11,000,000 in today's money between 1924 and 1950.
The effort to capture Georgia Tann
Because Georgia was so wealthy, she could retain most of the state's judges and lawyers, making it impossible for angry parents to take any action against her.
In 1949, Tennessee Governor Jim Nance McCord asked attorney Rober L Taylor and Judge Camille Kelley to hear Georgia Tann's case because of the large number of complaints and kidnappings in Tennessee.
Surprisingly, Georgia was able to obliterate the evidence, destroying any documents related to the children being sold. With the help of Gordon Browning (Tennessee's newly elected governor), Taylor gathered the necessary evidence to get Georgia sentenced to life in prison in 1950. On September 12, 1950, at the age of 59, Georgia Tann died of cancer, although she was publicly declared guilty at a press conference that month.
The only reason Georgia wasn't arrested was that she died before we had the evidence to catch her in time. A nationwide investigation has been launched into all foster care agencies in the US to curb child trafficking and illegal adoptions.
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For 20 years, a Tennessee baby thief kidnapped more than 5,000 children from the streets, hospitals, and shanty towns of Memphis. Now, 70 years later, survivors of her 'house of horrors' are confronting the past.
https://www.insider.com/georgia-tann-tennessee-children-home-society-survivors-speak-out-2019-12