How many illegitimate kids did Dr Hicks have?
How many illegitimate kids did Dr Hicks have?
The “Hicks Babies” explore their past in TLC’s “Taken at Birth.” In the 1950s and early 1960s, more than 200 newborn babies were illegally sold or given away through a clinic run by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks in the small town of McCaysville, Georgia.
When did Dr Hicks start selling babies?
Hughes is among the roughly 200 adults who have come to be known as the “Hicks Babies,” newborns who were illegally sold into black market adoptions by Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks between 1950 and 1965, according to county birth records.
What is the story behind the Hicks Babies?
Hicks was also conducting illegal abortions, sometimes involuntary, and he was selling babies to families for prices ranging from $100 to $1,000. In 1964, Hicks was arrested for performing an abortion after one patient, described as a brunette in her 20s from Cobb County, reported him to authorities.
What were babies sold on the black market by a doctor called?
(Silver Spring, MD) – Over three nights this October, TLC’s TAKEN AT BIRTH will share the untold stories of the “Hicks Babies,” the name given to more than 200 newborn babies illegally sold or given away from the back steps of a small-town Georgia clinic run by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks during the 1950s and 1960s.
