His wife and son have both passed away. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. He wasnt going around knocking girls up and holding them hostage in his apartment until they delivered their babies so he could sell them.. I do hope your brother survived and is out there somewhere. The Dr Hicks who ran the black-market adoptions had a son who became a dentist. Dr. Thomas Hicks was a small-town Georgia doctor who was posthumously accused of selling hundreds of babies in illegal adoptions. Do you know how that can mentally affect a woman? To protect their privacy, I have chosen not to mention any of the individuals who were adopted by name in this article. I can promise you this, if theres a hell, he is in the front row seat! He lied to those women whether they wanted their children or not. I dont know the truth, the people involved back THEN know. You dont want to vilify him? At least 200 babies had their identities stolen. Oh my gosh Barbara, he also delivered the babies early, like induced at between 31 & 34 wks causing them to have low birthweight, failure to thrive and other health issues. Some of Hicks Babies, as they are sometimes referred to as, have done DNA tests in order to identify relatives who might be able to help them learn who their birth parents were. I dont know. 50 Years After Being Stolen and Sold, Baby Reunited with Birth Mother Some babies were that small but not all of them. Facebook Youre as crazy as he was if you think he should even get a pat on the back for his time and services. Thank you so much. I can attest to the fact that some of the mothers were married (yes, to the biological fathers) at the time their infants were sold. Dr Thomas Jugarthy Hicks, Sr (1888 - 1972) - Genealogy - geni family tree At the other end of the transaction, adoptive parents drove to a window in the alley behind the clinic, shelled out $1,000 or morebig money for the timeand were handed a newborn. 'Hicks Baby' Adoptee Sold by Georgia Doctor 50 Years Ago Reunites With Birth Mother, Brother, Who are the Hicks babies? I used AncestryDNA to solve all of the Hicks cases I worked on. You saw it. This is a story of a doctor who saved lives?? Taken at Birth: The Hicks Clinic Stolen Babies - A&E True Crime He was inducing them around 30 weeks handing out 4lb babies to people. As a result, he could not provide information that would help the babies find their parents or the other way around. Some of the ads and links on this website are affiliate links which pay me a commission if you purchase through them. Thomas is 21 degrees from Jennifer Aniston, 20 degrees from Drew Barrymore, 22 degrees from Candice Bergen, 26 degrees from Alexandre Dumas, 17 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 32 degrees from Whitney Houston, 20 degrees from Hayley Mills, 20 degrees from Liza Minnelli, 20 degrees from Lisa Presley, 21 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland, 17 degrees from Bill Veeck and 22 degrees from Brian Nash on our single family tree. In this post, learn who the Hicks Babies are, how they got their name, and how some of them are using DNA to discover their biological origins. Not sure how you can justify robbing mothers of their babies (some were told the babies died) or destroying the records so those that wanted to find their biological parents had no way of doing so.
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