The Hollywood Baby Snatcher, Georgia Tann.

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For 30 years, Georgia Tann made millions selling children. A network of scouts, corrupt judges and politicians helped her steal babies. She also targeted youngsters on their way home from school, promising them ice cream to tempt them away from their homes

Georgia Tann – The Baby Thief

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From 1924 through 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. She used it as a front for an illegal foundling home and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children, from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what she called “high type” families in …

Bill to outlaw ‘rehoming’ of adopted children to become law

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AUGUSTA, Maine — Later this summer, Maine will become the sixth state to criminalize the transfer of adopted children from one family to another without approval from a court. LD 1342, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Craig Hickman of Winthrop, an adoptee himself, outlaws the transfer of long-term care and custody of a child younger than 18 years old without a …

Against Child Trafficking

Against Child Trafficking

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About ACT:  Against Child Trafficking is an international nonprofit organization, registered in the Netherlands. ACT’s main focus is the prevention of child trafficking for intercountry adoption. ACT advocates child rights based social policies that are in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the universal standard and the best safeguard against child trafficking. …

International Adoption Corruption

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There is nothing that matters more to human beings than knowing our biological roots. Children, who are moved from their biological families or their birth environment, live with a big gaping hole in their hearts that nobody or nothing could ever fill. Orphan children are children who lost one or two of their parents. They have other families who are …