Georgia Tann with an unknown toddler, circa 1945. Tann owned and operated the unlicensed Tennessee Children's Home Society adoption agency which between the mid-1920s and 1950 trafficked over 5,000 children in a black market baby adoption scheme. [800 x 6

Georgia Tann with an unknown toddler, circa 1945. Tann owned and opera…

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Georgia Tann with an unknown toddler, circa 1945. Tann owned and operated the unlicensed Tennessee Children

Her methods for attaining the children included coercing young single women at homes for unwed mothers, taking the infants born to women in mental institutions and outright kidnapping.

One of the babies trafficked through this scheme was Richard Morgan Fliehr, who would later become known as 16 time world champion and self-professed Dirtiest Player in the Game, Ric Flair. Sad woo.

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