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They found out about each other by chance and as they delved into their past, they realised thousands of babies in Georgia were stolen from hospitals and sold for adoption, some as recently as 2005. Now they want answers.

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:02 My mother hasn't given birth in 1984.

00:06 This birth certificate is not real.

00:08 [MUSIC]

00:10 I am helping parents to find their children

00:14 who were stolen and sold by the Georgian doctors.

00:18 [MUSIC]

00:21 Everyone was calling my mom,

00:23 "It's your daughter in the Georgians Got Talent.

00:26 Why is she dancing with another name?"

00:30 [FOREIGN]

00:35 Georgia is coming to terms with a black market adoption scandal

00:39 spanning decades.

00:40 [FOREIGN]

00:45 It's believed tens of thousands of babies were stolen,

00:48 some as recently as the mid-2000s.

00:51 [FOREIGN]

00:57 [FOREIGN]

01:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]

How Georgia's Got Talent helped solve a mystery of stolen babies in Georgia - BBC World Service

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