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Raymann learned that he too was a Hicks baby, who had been sold from the clinic as well. Women who wanted abortions would be talked into keeping the pregnancy so he could sell the baby once it arrived. Hick's Adoptees - Facebook Distractify is a registered trademark. Funeral services were conducted Saturday, December 18, 2021, at 2 p.m. from the Stafford Town Holiness Church with Brother Tulley Griggs and Brother Justin Payne officiating. 2019. Parents reveal he was giving babies that weighed between three and five pounds out the backdoor of his clinic. The Hicks Babies - The DNA Geek Surnames in his family tree include Thomas, Fitch, Green, Waddell, and Johnson. But in Georgia, there are still hundreds of people looking for answers. Dilbeck did get to meet a sister who is 10 years younger than him. Q: What kind of reaction have you received since Taken at Birth premiered on Hulu? This is how this group of babies, who are now all grown up, came to be called Hicks Babies. Blasio says she mostly hears from viewers who were affected by the story, but also receives messages from people with information that could be helpful in her investigation into Dr. Hicks or genealogists offering their assistance. Hicks was a known abortionist and the illegal adoptions came to an end in 1964, when Hicks was caught performing illegal abortions. To appease the moms, the doctor would tell them he had found parents to adopt their kids, or that they had died during childbirth. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). Hicks lost his medical license in 1964 and died in 1972. Hicks made sure the birth certificates listed the people adopting as birth parents. She says Kitty Self, the woman she thought for 17 years to be her birth mother, surrendered two children to Dr. Hicks-- a newborn girl and a one-year-old boy. Both of Dr. Hicks parents were born in Tennessee.