**Trigger warning she talks about how babies and children were abused, and her brother's abuse.**

This conversation is long but so important as the survivors of Georgia Tann are aging & it is so important that they tell their stories. If you are unfamiliar with Georgia Tann, she ran the Tennessee Children's home in Memphis (Which was very corrupt at the time.) from the 20s till 1950 when she died from cancer just 3 days before she was to be indicted. She stole over 5,000 babies and children from poor families in Tennessee only to sell them to people she deemed more worthy to be parents due to their wealth. Her business spanned the country with syndicated newspaper ads for "available" children being run from New York to California. I first learned of her in an episode of the Criminal podcast called "The Baby snatcher", and have since read the book by Barbara Raymond called "The Baby Thief". Barbara actually tracked down people and dug in the archives of court houses in libraries in order to tell the story of Georgia Tann. 

Judy and some of her siblings were children stolen by Georgia. Judy was fortunate that she was adopted by a doting couple, her brother was not as fortunate. 

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