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Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video

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It’s an excellent outcome for these twins for sure, but holy fuck:
Tamuna discovered a black market in adoption that stretched across Georgia and went on from the early 1950s to 2005.
She believes it was run by organised criminals and involved people from all sections of society, from taxi drivers to people high up in the government. Corrupt officials would fake the documents needed for the illegal adoptions.
"The scale is unimaginable, up to 100,000 babies were stolen. It was systemic," she says.
Maybe 100,000+ children taken and sold for "a year's salary" over the course of 50 years.
Absolutely insane.
It really messes with me that there's a US state and also a country named Georgia (and there's also South Georgia which is off the coast of Antarctica).
- Yeah, I knew that but I still wasn’t sure until the third mention, when I went back and started over with the correct mindset. My other comment is that this really isn’t uplifting news, it actually awful, even though these girls found each other.
  
  Yeah. When I first heard about South Georgia I was confused because I wasn't sure if they were referring to the southern part of the state or country... But it was neither. It's an island about 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica.
- Yeah somebody needs to change up the spelling or something.
Given my son was born recently, this explains why the hospital had so much security, id checks, locked check points, and so on. We were asked our names and birthdays almost every conversation, even.
100,000 babies, holy fuck.
Great article about a very sad situation. But glad steps are being taken to try to fix it for those affected.
Maybe it's just me, but these two gals don't look like identical twins. Sisters? Definitely. But some of their facial features are different enough that you can easily tell them assist from each other. And I don't think it's just down to lighting or makeup.

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