Jane Blasio could not imagine that the family in which she grew up was not her own. Moreover, the girl was even more shocked that she was sold for $ 1,000. And it all started with the fact that the girl accidentally compared the date of birth in the birth certificate and in the hospital card. The numbers didn’t match.
Jane’s foster parents did not resist hearing the question, as they understood that sooner or later this topic would be raised. Yes, they really paid the doctor $ 1,000, after assuring that the woman in labor refused the child and this money goes to the mother. But the foster parents did not even suspect that little Jane was taken from her mother against her will.
A terrible crime has happened. The doctor, after giving birth, informed the mother that the baby was dead. While the mother was in shock, the doctor took the child to the backyard of the hospital and gave it to the new parents, said «Good luck» and left them forever.As it turned out, Dr. Hicks had been delivering babies all his life and was actively engaged in the sale of babies. In total, the doctor managed to sell about 200 newborns, which means that the heart of the unfortunate women was broken 200 times. The doctor conducted his underground activities in the period from 1950 to 1960, and the whole truth was discovered only in 1997.It’s amazing that in a town whose population barely exceeded 1,000 people, this doctor managed to keep everything a secret.
Jane became the first of the «sold» children who found out the truth and began to conduct her own investigation. As it turned out, the doctor launched a whole business. The doctor performed abortions, which were prohibited at that time, and in some cases frightened women that it was impossible to have an abortion and persuaded them to reach the end of pregnancy. But in the final, the same women received the terrible news that the child had died. The doctor calmly sold them from the «back entrance».
Among such mothers were those who were expecting children as the happiness of the family and did not think about abortions. They spent the whole pregnancy, dying with happiness, waiting for the appearance of the firstborn. For these women, the news of the death of a child was a terrible blow. «He stole my child, stole my life, my destiny!» Thelma Tipton, one of the injured mothers, told the TV channel. He didn’t just ruin my life, he didn’t let me see how a girl’s first tooth appears, how she goes to school, how she gets married. It’s not a man – it’s a monster.
Thelma saw her daughter for the first time 25 years later, when the woman was already 51 years old, when the story of the crime was revealed. Of the 200 children sold, most were sold to families living in Akron. Couples traveled 900 kilometers to become parents and they did not know the truth about what the doctor was doing. They were all just happy to finally become parents. Our heroine, Jane, having learned about the terrible crime of the doctor, devoted her whole life to uncovering the doctor’s scheme, and also did everything so that the sold children could find out their fate and get to know their own parents. But Jane herself never found her mother. Who knows how the news of the child’s death affected the poor woman’s psyche and where she is now.
On the pages of her website, Jane writes: «All my life I have been looking for answers and making my way to the truth as a beginner and gradually grew up to the level of a professional investigator, having received a criminal justice education at the university. Now I am an expert in finding sold children on the black market.» The criminal doctor did not suffer the deserved punishment for his deeds, as he died 25 years before the truth became known to the world. And although he was still deprived of his license for illegal abortions, he never answered for the ruined destinies of hundreds of people.
