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Beulah George, better known as Georgia” Tann was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Georgia came from a powerful family being that her father was a judge. She wanted to follow in his footsteps but he forbade it. She instead, pursued a career in social work.
She was soon fired from her social work job for inappropriately removing children from impoverished homes without cause. In her mind, low class families didn’t deserve to have children, and that was the driving force of her dark decisions to come.
She adopted a woman named Ann Atwood Hollingsworth, who was believed to be her same-sex partner. This was a woman who was also an accomplice to her actions.
Tann ended up having her corrupt father land her a job as an executive secretary at the Memphis branch of the Tennessee children’s home society.
In the 1920’s, adoption began to skyrocket due to it’s market as a shortcut to improving society.
An ad was even placed by the national home finding society, promising that adoption would in fact, reduce divorce, banditry, unaliving, and control births and fill all the churches.
Of course, a woman like Georgia Tann took full advantage of desperate, greedy women who couldn’t have babies, especially hardworking single women and rich families.
She set her sights on the rich and famous, including actress Joan Crawford who adopted 4 children from her. He story would later turn into a blockbuster hit called “mommy dearest” where the adopted children recalled not having the best life with her.
What makes this worse is, Tann had eyes and ears all over the state of Mississippi.. literally. She was in cahoots with all sorts of police, doctors, lawyers, and other public figures. One of her most notable accomplices was a judge named Camille Kelly. She would abuse her authority by taking parental rights from birth mother’s, and give them to Tann..
Eventually, she was exposed by a new governor and found that she made about 1 million (11 in today’s money) from selling babies, but she died before she could get justice.
Judge Camille Kelly, died five years later…
Tann and Kelly were very well protected due to the paying off government workers and legislators.
Many of the children were able to find their birth parents later on, but a small portion was not. Tann ruined a lot of lives with her green and pure evilness…
Unfortunately, No criminal charges were ever brought to anyone involved in the baby selling scheme.
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