OUR HISTORY: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects: "My baby was stolen" #NAAM2021

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Monday, November 15, 2021

"My baby was stolen" #NAAM2021

NEW SPECIAL FEATURE: A religious youth home in the 1970s and 80s took babies from teen moms and put them up for adoption

Women are still searching for what happened to babies they say were “Stolen”https://t.co/U2XmuHXpL2 @nbcnews
— Tyler Kingkade (@tylerkingkade) November 11, 2021

DALTON, Ga. — On a humid evening in August, Nancy Davis Womac paced anxiously on her front deck. Her hands trembled as she stared at a text message from her firstborn daughter, Melanie Spencer, saying that she was minutes away.

The two had never met.

Forty-three years ago, Womac was pregnant and living in an orphanage when she was sent to the Bethesda Home for Girls on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was run by Baptist preachers who forced girls to memorize Bible chapters and scrub carpets by hand. Staff members beat the girls with wooden boards if they broke a rule.