Now an adult daughter is trying to find a loved one.
It is difficult to imagine the feelings of a person who found out that he was sold like a kitten … Jane Blasio did not suspect that she was growing up in a strange family. But one day I accidentally compared the dates of birth on my hospital card and on the birth certificate – the numbers did not match.
Questions began, and Jane’s parents told how they adopted her for $ 1000. People sincerely believed: the money will be received by the biological mother of the girl who allegedly abandoned the child. But they did not know that the baby was taken from her mother against her will.
It turned out that the doctor who delivered the baby told the woman that the baby had been born still.
“And then he carried me out through the back door and gave me to foster parents with the words“ Good luck! ” – says Jane in the TLC documentary.
The doctor was selling babies from the back door of the clinic.
Later, the already grown-up Jane learned that Dr. Hicks, who was giving birth, had sold more than 200 babies. And all this in the tiny town of McCaseville with a population of just over a thousand people. It was in the 50s and 60s. However, the terrible truth was revealed only in 1997.
“How did he manage to keep everything secret in such a small town ?!” – Jane wonders, who became the first of the children to learn about the incident. She also began to search for the truth about the Hicks clinic.
As it turned out, the doctor did not hesitate to perform abortions, which were illegal in those days. In other cases, the doctor persuaded women to go to the end of pregnancy in order to then pick up the children and sell them to other people.
“After giving birth, he convinced the women that their baby was dead,” says Jane.
Among the deceived mothers were those who did not want to have an abortion, for whom it was a desired child.
“He stole my daughter, stole my life from me,” Thelma Tipton told the channel .
I missed the way my daughter grew up, missed her first tooth, her first day at school, her wedding. I missed everything! “
Thelma met her kidnapped daughter only half a century later – at 51, Christy Hughes learned that she had been sold to another family. The woman immediately began looking for her mother.
Dr. Hicks has sold over 200 babies.
Most of the children were adopted by families from Akron, 900 km from the Hicks Clinic. These couples could not afford the traditional expensive method of adoption, so they went to see the “doctor-virtue.” However, they were unaware of Hicks’s dark methods.
After learning the truth about her birth, Jane devoted her whole life to uncovering the doctor’s secret scheme, as well as helping other kidnapped children find their families. Unfortunately, the woman has not yet found her mother.
“All my life I’ve been looking for answers,” says Jane on her website page. – I made my way to the truth, first as a beginner, and then as a professional investigator, having received a criminal justice education at the university. Today I consider myself an expert in finding adopted children on the black market. ”
Dr. Hicks never answered for what he had done.
Unfortunately, many mothers did not live to see their missing children. However, the “Hicks Babies” were able to meet with their siblings.
As for Dr. Hicks, he never took responsibility for the ruined lives. And although the doctor was deprived of his medical license, it was not for trafficking in children, but for an illegal abortion in 1964. In 1972, Dr. Hicks died at the age of 83 – a quarter of a century before the truth was revealed.