She never accepted the fact that she was now a part of another family. She always longed for her biological family. And now you have a new mommy and daddy.’ So, my mother never got over the trauma of being taken from her parents, of being separated from her siblings. So, just imagine being 8 years old, and then being told, ‘No, you’re 6 years old. And Georgia Tann told their adoptive parents that they were 6 years old.

I have a mommy and daddy.’ My mother and her twin were 8 years old at the time. And as soon as they got off the train, they were told, ‘We’re your new mommy and daddy.’ My mother said, ‘No, you’re not. My mother and her twin sister were taken to Philadelphia and adopted to a couple, a very nice couple in Philadelphia. There, they were separated from all their siblings, and they were adopted out across the country. And the limousine pulled up, and somehow lured them into the car, and took them to the orphanage. And my mother was 8 years old at the time when a limousine pulled up. She lived with her mommy and daddy in a little shack along the Mississippi River. And children - dozens of children - died within short periods of time.” Doctors were telling to quit bringing in more babies. And there were times when epidemics swept through the main orphanage. … And that person’s job was to not bring the baby back, wheel the baby out in the sun or whatever, and let it expire.

So, if a child was sickly, or had a birth defect, or a health problem, or it was just too fussy, or not cute enough - not marketable, in other words. Lisa Wingate: “Some 500 to 600 are estimated to have died in the care of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, because it was a for-profit industry. On the children who died while living in the Tennessee Children’s Home Society And, so, it was very easy for her to roll up and say, ‘Hey, would you like a ride in my nice car?’ And she’s this grandmotherly looking woman. Many children had never been in a car, during those years. That was before the day and time, ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ and, ‘Don’t get in a car with anybody.’ And, so, it was very easy for her to roll up. People used to leave children out to sit in the yard, or put a crib out on the porch. If she saw availability, she took advantage of it. She would canvas poor parts of town, shanty towns along the river. Lisa Wingate: “She would take children off the street, off front porches. On how Georgia Tann, of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, would kidnap children

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