Georgia tann babies. The story first told by barbara raymond in a magazine article that inspired a 60 minutes feature was shocking. But she didnt know until she was in her 70s that she had been stolen from her birth mother who had been told she was dead. Yes she managed to commit her crimes in the span of 26 years.
The untold story of georgia tann the baby seller who corrupted adoption by barbara bisantz raymond was published in the us australia and the uk. Georgia tann was profiled on deadly women. Articles on tanns life also have been published in good housekeeping magazine.
Devereaux devy bruch eyler grew up knowing she was adopted. The book the baby thief. Known as the baby thief georgia tann managed to kidnap and sell 5000 babies in the black market from 1924 to 1950.
Georgia tann nationally lauded for arranging adoptions out of her childrens home in memphis tennessee was actually a baby seller who terrorized poor often unwed mothers by stealing their children and selling them to wealthy clients like actors joan crawford and dick powell. Benjamin hooks library archives for more than two decades georgia tann ran a lucrative child kidnapping and adoption ring. Beulah george georgia tann july 18 1891 september 15 1950 was an american child trafficker who operated the tennessee childrens home society an adoption agency in memphis tennesseetann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud being perpetrated by her closed.
Led by a woman named georgia tann the tennessee childrens home society would sell children especially white babies with blonde hair and blue eyes.