>>> This is a small town.
You wouldn't have ever thought
anything this big was going on.
>> He requested a thousand
dollars.
They were told to come to the
back door and handed the baby
out and said, good luck.
>> We know now that he was
telling women that their baby
died and he would sell them.
>> They'd put it in my arms.
Isn't she awful tiny?
>> Those women deserve the
truth.
>> It almost sounds unreal, but
it is real.
The new tlc docuseries, taken at
birth uncovers the shocking case
of a the hicks babies, black
market 0u9 of a small clinic in
Georgia.
>> Jane and Lisa worked
tirelessly to reveal the truths
about this story and reunite
long-lost families.
Welcome, ladies.
You've been investigating
Dr. Hicks since you were 19
years old.
>> 18.
And you started this journey
after you found an error on your
birth certificate?
>> I knew I was adopted from an
early age and at 18 I wanted to
find my birth family.
>> Right.
>> So I started looking.
I knew it was -- as my adopted
father said, not aboveboard.
I knew there could be some
challenges, but I didn't expect
what I found.
>> That they bought you
literally, right?
>> Yes.
>> Wow.
>> So what was -- paid cash?
>> They paid cash, yes.
>> So what was their response
once you came back with that
information?
>> Well, they knew that I
would -- I mean, they had talked
about it openly.
My father talked about it openly
with me.
So he had told me the story
before I went down, yeah.
>> May I ask, what does a baby
go for?
What was the price?
>> He paid a thousand for me.
My sister was bought from the
same place four years earlier.
They paid 600 for her.
>> Tell them the circumstances
surrounding when you were
adopted by your adoptive
parents.
You were tiny.
You were this little baby.
She was literally handed out the
back door.
>> Yeah.
So it was pretty bad.
>> How do these transactions
work?
It's not like you can put it on
Facebook.
How do they happen?
>> It was word of mouth mostly.
There was a woman that had grown
up in mckayesville, Georgia.
She moved to Ohio.
She knew the doctor.
She couldn't have children.
So she bought babies from him.
She told her friends, and it
just went from there.
So there were close to 200,
possibly more.
We still don't know what the
exact number is.
It went to Akron, Ohio.
>> Based on that research, how
many babies do you think
Dr. Hicks could have done this
>> There's absolutely no number.
We don't have concrete
information right now other than
to go about 200.
>> There's no documentation.
He would forge birth
certificates.
Some of these people didn't even
know when they were born.
>> Wow.
>> So how did Dr. Hicks -- how
was he able to get away with
this for decades?
>> It was a small town.
It's funny, because people knew,
but they sort of turned the
other cheek, didn't they?
>> So the police and authorities
were aware and they didn't do
>> He was a big man in town.
He owned businesses, several
businesses.
Ment he was the doctor.
>> At that time doctors were
like gods.
So if they say something, that's
the absolute truth.
>> Was there a connection or a
thought that maybe his own
children were children that were
biologically his have been
victims of this?
>> Yes, there was.
From the very beginning, I mean,
that was always something --
when I talked to some of the
towns folks, my sources
basically, they had said they
thought it was a good
possibility that he had fathered
some of them.
>> So you've been able to
reunite now some of these
families who were separated this
way.
What has that experience been
like?
>> You can't put words to it.
It's amazing.
>> It's incredible.
But it's also -- the people who
went on these journeys were
incredibly brave.
They don't don't know what
they're going to find at the end
of this.
A lot of them found out, sadly,
we had one case where the birth
mother was told that the
children were still born.
>> Oh, what.
>> And they were sold.
They buried the children.
They put tombstones up.
These families mourned the death
of their children their entire
life.
>> Only to meet them years
later.
>> Is it possible these children
were the biological children of
Dr. Hicks themselves?
>> You're going to have to
watch.
>> That's the tease.
You make me want to watch now.
Thank you for sharing.
That's mind blowing right there.
You can check out, taken at
birth, Wednesday night on tlc.
>> Kit, what is going on over
there?
>> Look here.
I don't want to mess up her
makeup.
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