However, she despised playing piano and, instead, desired to become a lawyer as her father had been. Tann attended Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Virginia, graduating with a degree in music in 1913, and took courses in social work at Columbia University in New York for two summers. Judge Tann would sometimes bring abandoned or neglected children with him, remarking that he would need a minister, school teacher, and doctor to figure out what to do with the children. Nelli Kenyon with The Nashville Tennessean reported that Tann's childhood home in Hickory, Mississippi, was a popular neighborhood gathering spot. He also had aspirations of his daughter becoming a concert pianist, and, beginning at the age of five, he put her in piano lessons that continued into adulthood. Her father, Judge George Tann, reportedly had a "domineering" personality. Beulah was a school teacher during a time when it was uncommon for women to work outside of the home. She was older than her brother, Rob Roy Tann, by three years. Georgia Tann was born on July 18, 1891, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to George Clark Tann and Beulah Yates. 2.1 Mississippi Children’s Home Society.This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been republished here with permission. The documentary sees Ms Blasio reunited with some of the babies sold at the clinic as they attempt to solve the decades old mystery and reunite them with their families. “How for nearly two decades, does a doctor get away with illegally selling hundreds of babies out of the back door of his clinic.” “I was a black market baby and I’ve been investigating Dr Hicks for my entire life,” Ms Blasio explains on the show.
The mind-blowing story is the subject of a TLC series, Taken at Birth, which attempts to crack open the mystery of the doctor’s scheme and reunite some of the “Hicks babies” with their birth families. Most of the children were adopted by Akron-area families who couldn’t afford the costly traditional route of adoption and many of whom were unaware of Dr Hicks’ dark methods. This is consistent with many of the Hicks babies’ low recorded birth weights, with some weighing as little as 1.3kg. “We know now that he was telling women that their baby died and he would sell them,” Ms Blasio explained in the new series Taken At Birth.
It is believed that he would also deliberately induce mothers, leading them to believe that their children were stillborn before handing them over to the adoptive parents for a fee.
Picture: Taken At Birth/YouTubeīut occasionally, when women came to him for an abortion, he instead coaxed them to carry their babies to term - then took the infants off their hands and sold them.
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