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Human Monsters

Child Abuse Part 12: Baby Thief Georgia Tann

Human Monsters

Morgan Rector & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

3.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Most social workers chose their profession out of a sincere desire to help others, especially children. Georgia Tann perceived children of indigent parents as a commodity to capitalize on, and she did, becoming a millionaire in the process. Unfortunately, the children in her care didn't fare quite as well, suffering from abuse, illness, and, in some cases, even death. Georgia Tann was a sociopath with no respect for human life from which she could not turn a profit. Special thanks to Michael Coltham for the fantastic musical score. Check out his website: www.michaelcoltham.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

0:06.0

Welcome to Human Monsters.

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I'm just going to begin with an announcement.

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I like to thank everybody once again for donating to the

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Kickstarter campaign. I'm recording on the new microphone and it's working

0:19.1

wonderfully so thank you very much for that. I'd also like to ask everybody if you just do me one small favor and go to the podcast's iTunes site.

0:30.0

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0:33.4

It would be so cool.

0:34.6

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0:36.0

I appreciate all your feedback and I appreciate that you listen to the show.

0:41.4

Thank you so much. Why do you seem so scared? All I wanted to do is play with you.

1:05.0

Please come and play with me. I am so lonely.

1:07.0

You're not afraid of the dog, are you?

1:11.0

Don't be afraid, fight. Come with me. I will show you where I play hide and seek. Do you want to play hide and seek?

1:20.0

You hide and seek. You hide and I'll find you. Oh, Lula George George Tann was born in Philadelphia, Tennessee. Her father George wanted her to become a

2:06.8

concert pianist and forced her to take piano lessons throughout her childhood.

2:12.7

She graduated from Martha Washington College with a degree in music in 1913, but music

2:19.4

was not her passion.

2:21.2

She wanted to become a lawyer. Her father didn't want her to practice law because it was not

2:26.2

ladylike. She took courses in social work as this was considered an acceptable vocation for women at the time. Georgia was not lady-like.

2:37.0

This had nothing to do with her profession. It was inborn. At variance with the southern standard of womanhood, she was big-boned and broad-shouldered.

2:47.0

Her demeanor was described as blunt and masculine.

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