Sold At Birth: 'Hicks Babies' Search For Birth Parents

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Melinda Dawson with the mother who raised her, Judy Johnson.

Thomas Hicks was once a local hero in the small mining community of McCaysville, Georgia. He was the town doctor who made middle-of-the-night house calls. But Hicks had a terrible secret, one still reverberating today. From 1950 to 1965, he sold more than two hundred babies on the black market. Some parents knew, others were told their children had died. These children are now fully grown adults, still known as the “Hicks Babies.” We talk to Melinda Dawson and Kriste Hughes about their search for birth parents. 

Melinda Dawson and Kriste Hughes share their stories.