Georgia Tann: The Baby Thief Who Called Herself the Mother of Modern Adoption

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Quick answers Who was Georgia Tann? The head of the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, who ran a black market baby trafficking ring behind the front of a legitimate adoption agency from 1924 to 1950, kidnapping and selling an estimated 5,000 children. How did she get away with it for so long? Political protection. Memphis boss E.H. "Crump" ran the city for decades, and Shelby County judge Camille Kelley rubber-stamped Tann's adoptions, so almost nobody with power over...