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WHO
IS
GEORGIA
TANN?
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WHO
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GEORGIA
TANN?
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Ric Flair’s adoption was arranged by the Tennessee Children's Home Society as part of Georgia Tann's baby-kidnapping operation.
Georgia Tann placed over 5,000 children all over the country, many of them to Jewish families in New York, and to stars in California. Her clients included the likes of Joan Crawford, June Allyson & Dick Powell, Lana Turner, and NY Governor Herbert Lehman.
Ric Flair’s adoption was arranged by the Tennessee Children's Home Society as part of Georgia Tann's baby-kidnapping operation.
Georgia Tann placed over 5,000 children all over the country, many of them to Jewish families in New York, and to stars in California. Her clients included the likes of Joan Crawford, June Allyson & Dick Powell, Lana Turner, and NY Governor Herbert Lehman.
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Tann used a variety of methods to procure children. Through pressure tactics, threats of legal action, and other ways, she would dupe or coerce birth parents, mostly poor single mothers, to turn the children over to her custody, often under false pretenses. Tann also arranged for the taking of children born to inmates at Tennessee mental institutions and those born to wards of the state through her connections. To meet demand, she resorted to kidnappings.
Tann used a variety of methods to procure children. Through pressure tactics, threats of legal action, and other ways, she would dupe or coerce birth parents, mostly poor single mothers, to turn the children over to her custody, often under false pretenses. Tann also arranged for the taking of children born to inmates at Tennessee mental institutions and those born to wards of the state through her connections. To meet demand, she resorted to kidnappings.
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In some cases, single parents would drop their children off at nursery schools, only to be told that welfare agents had taken the children. In others, children would be temporarily placed in an orphanage because a family was experiencing illness or unemployment, only to find out later that the orphanage had adopted them out or had no record of the children ever being placed.
Tann was also documented as taking children born to unwed mothers at birth, claiming that the newborns required medical care. When the mothers asked about the children, Tann or her accomplices would explain that the babies had died, when they had actually been placed in foster homes or adoption
In some cases, single parents would drop their children off at nursery schools, only to be told that welfare agents had taken the children. In others, children would be temporarily placed in an orphanage because a family was experiencing illness or unemployment, only to find out later that the orphanage had adopted them out or had no record of the children ever being placed.
Tann was also documented as taking children born to unwed mothers at birth, claiming that the newborns required medical care. When the mothers asked about the children, Tann or her accomplices would explain that the babies had died, when they had actually been placed in foster homes or adoption
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Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in the U.S., and many of her adoption policies (often designed to obfuscate the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice. This is still going on today with the help of corrupt judges, police, lawyers, politicians, doctors, nurses, and CPS (Child Protective Services) of course.
STATS: Every year, approximately eight million children are reported missing worldwide. In the United States, 2300 children are reported missing per day (Nearly 400,000 young ones were abducted in 2020 alone). Every two minutes, a child is reported missing in Europe.
Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in the U.S., and many of her adoption policies (often designed to obfuscate the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice. This is still going on today with the help of corrupt judges, police, lawyers, politicians, doctors, nurses, and CPS (Child Protective Services) of course.
STATS: Every year, approximately eight million children are reported missing worldwide. In the United States, 2300 children are reported missing per day (Nearly 400,000 young ones were abducted in 2020 alone). Every two minutes, a child is reported missing in Europe.
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Georgia Tann was born a man
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Georgia Tann was born a man…
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950) was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s to 1950. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, sexually abused or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous cases of adoption fraud led to the institution's closure in 1950.
Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public.
Georgia Tann was born a man
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Georgia Tann was born a man…
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950) was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s to 1950. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, sexually abused or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous cases of adoption fraud led to the institution's closure in 1950.
Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public.
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