About: Georgia Tann

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Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud led to the closure of the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in America, and many of her adoption policies (often designed to hide the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice.

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  • Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud led to the closure of the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in America, and many of her adoption policies (often designed to hide the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice. (en)
  • 比尤拉·乔治·“乔治娅”·坦恩（英語：Beulah George "Georgia" Tann；1891年7月18日－1950年9月15日）是美国一名儿童贩子并在田纳西州的孟菲斯经营着一家儿童收养机构——。从1920年代开始，乔治娅·坦恩就利用无证房屋作为其经营儿童收养黑市的前线；直至1950年该机构被关闭，她受到多个州有关的指控。但是在调查结束之前，坦恩死于癌症。 (zh)
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  • 1950-09-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Beulah George Tann (en)
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  • Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S. (en)
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  • Died before arrest (en)
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  • 1950-09-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. (en)
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  • Georgia Tann (en)
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  • Social worker-turned-child trafficker (en)
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  • Ann Atwood Hollinsworth (en)
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  • Tennessee Children's Home Society had been dropped from the Child Welfare League of America because of its repeated failure to have homes of foster parents investigated prior to the placement of children for adoption, because Tennessee Children's Home Society had failed to study the children and their heritage before placing them for adoption, because of the failure of the Society to select proper homes for the children placed for adoption, because the foster parents had been permitted to select the child of their choice rather than placing the children in the home best suited for the child, because the home had engaged in advertising children for adoption and had encouraged hasty placements in disregard of the right to protection from commercial advertising, and because the Society had engaged in interstate placement of children at long distances from the situs of the Society which prevented careful home findings and suitable supervision pending adoption. (en)
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  • Hickory, Mississippi, U.S. (en)
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  • Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud led to the closure of the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. Tann's custom of placing children with influential members of society normalized adoption in America, and many of her adoption policies (often designed to hide the origin of her adoptees) have become standard practice. (en)
  • 比尤拉·乔治·“乔治娅”·坦恩（英語：Beulah George "Georgia" Tann；1891年7月18日－1950年9月15日）是美国一名儿童贩子并在田纳西州的孟菲斯经营着一家儿童收养机构——。从1920年代开始，乔治娅·坦恩就利用无证房屋作为其经营儿童收养黑市的前线；直至1950年该机构被关闭，她受到多个州有关的指控。但是在调查结束之前，坦恩死于癌症。 (zh)
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  • 乔治娅·坦恩 (zh)
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