Georgia tann baby ads. Georgia tann had a seemingly normal childhood. Yes she managed to commit her crimes in the span of 26 years. Even in the summer of 1940 as the nazis marched on paris the front page had room for georgia tanns ad for nancy memphis and shelby county room memphis public library and information center.
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. After more than 20 years tanns adoption scam was shut down. From 1924 to 1950 georgia tann and the tennessee childrens home society stole and sold an estimated 5000 children.
Georgia tann is also notorious for the brazen baby ads she ran in the memphis press scimitar. Georgia tann stole children from their real families and sold them for her own profit as she watched her baby coughing in her cot in a corner of her tiny apartment alma sipple. Black market seller of children for profit.
Movie stars including joan crawford left and june allyson adopted kids from the society. Through trickery deceit and outright fraud she stole children from parents through a variety of sources such as baby scouts corrupt judges. Georgias older brother rob roy tann may have been one of these children adopted by the tann family.
From hospitals to prisons to mental wards no baby was safe. Ours is a selective process. Lets recount the story of georgia tann if youve got the stomach for it.
Tann pocketed thousands of dollars that ticket holders assumed went to the home society and had to give away just a fraction of her merchandise in the process. But in 1949 things took a turn. Keen to make more money tann began running georgias christmas baby ads in the local newspaper under the headline.
Tanns baby selling scheme carried on unabated for over two decades.