Baby Broker
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - Baby Broker
Georgia Tann was a social worker who ran a child kidnapping and adoption scheme starting in 1924. Georgia ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, and for over 20 years she would take children from poor families and sell them to wealthy families for a hefty profit. She would even steal newborns from mothers in prisons and mental wards. Georgia Tann stole over 5,000 children during the course of her black-market baby ring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:09.7 | It was June 12, 1940, and the Nazis had just captured France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. |
| 0:18.3 | A pretty big news day, right? And yet, in Memphis, Tennessee, |
| 0:22.8 | that news shared the front page |
| 0:24.9 | with a grainy photo of a baby girl. |
| 0:27.9 | Cheeks split wide and a gummy smile. |
| 0:30.8 | And the headline read, |
| 0:32.3 | Nancy, just 11 months old, needs a home. |
| 0:35.9 | Can you say no? |
| 0:37.0 | Rock goodbye, baby on the tree top. |
| 0:43.9 | Underneath the photo of baby Nancy was this description. |
| 0:48.3 | Curly brown hair with just a hint of gold, big brown eyes with a merry sparkle and an excellent disposition. Can you resist Nancy? |
| 0:58.3 | Award of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. Nancy is available for permanent adoption. So are |
| 1:04.9 | seven other infants and children, boys and girls, up to six years old. Nancy is 11 months old. Anyone interested in adopting Nancy or another child is invited to get in touch with Miss Georgia Tan, Tennessee Children's Home Society, Dermon Building. |
| 1:23.8 | What a beautiful child. One of thousands of babies that miss Georgia Tan helped place into loving homes. |
| 1:33.0 | Such a nice story. |
| 1:35.2 | Such a sweet story. |
| 1:37.7 | Until you know the truth. |
| 1:39.1 | When the outbreaks the cradle will fall. |
| 1:45.9 | The truth about Miss Georgia tan. |
| 1:50.3 | And down will come cradle, baby and all. |
| 1:59.2 | And they got a small beam of light against the year. |
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