This is so scary. She's been in her space. She knows where she's delivering. She's probably asked probing questions into their past. She knows where they live and they will feel on alert till she's found. Even after the birth. This woman has taken the safe space they were bringing their baby to. I'm so sorry they are going through this and hope she is found quickly.
i THINK SHE HAS BEEN CAUGHT. sHE WANTED A BABY AND COULDN'T HAVE ONE OR SOMETHING. i THIK SHE LIVED IN gARY OR SOMETHING. sHE STOLE SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY, AND SHE MIGHT'VE KILLED HER. i DON'T REMEMBER THE DETAILS, BUT THERE ARE DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT IT.
A lot of people don’t have the option. A woman in the UK was murdered and r*ped by a police officer and the government said she should’ve resisted arrest but when black people do that they get shot and people say “they shouldn’t have resisted”
I used to work for CPS and when I first listened to this in the full episode I knew something was off from the start!! In child trafficking it’s very common to request babies with certain characteristics. (Complexion, hair color, eye color, sex, etc) it’s very likely that the couple was targeted because of this, and the reason why she wasn’t sure if she’d take the baby yet was because they were waiting to see if it had the characteristics the buyer wanted. Thank god for the people who told her to contact a lawyer!! This could’ve gone so bad, so fast. Unfortunately, the system is VERY broken. It’s part of the reason I left.
Very fishy! I will be a Social Worker when I graduate in December this year and im rethinking if I want to go into CPS or if I do Adoption. I always wanted CPS but after this podcast i want to rethink it
@@MsGarcia10823 don’t let others sway your opinion on what you feel called to do as a career! Truthfully, CPS was one of the most fulfilling jobs I’ve had so far. I really enjoyed working one on one with families. That being said, my caseload was insane and I was burnt out really fast. CPS has a high turnover rate, rightfully so. It’s a very emotionally draining job. When I was there a lot of my cases were p*dophillia related, it was a lot to stomach. While CPS is a broken system, it’s not going to fix itself. We NEED good people to take on that job. If you feel that person is you, DO IT! Good luck, and congrats on graduating in December!!
I have never heard of something like this happening. I would legit be just like the mom and fall for everything just because how much we follow authority. I’m glad she got advice before her labor.
Sadly this has happened quite a few times, especially to minority women. A case is actually currently going on I forget the women's name but cps took her child and and tried to stop them from leaving the hospital with a absolutely no cause
I had my son Tues morning via c-section. I'm so grateful I had him before hearing this. I watch enough true crime content. I can't imagine how that woman is feeling. Thank God for Reddit.
Congratulations on your precious little prince! I'm currently 32 weeks pregnant with my second baby, and hearing things like this literally terrifies me. Especially with so many people coming forward saying their babies were taken away for no good reason by CPS. Makes me almost wish I could just give birth at home so I don't have to fear them barging in to my hospital room and stealing my baby girl out of my arms.
Someone recently put an airtag on my best friend's car to track her. The only reason she knew was because of the alert that came up on her phone telling her it was following her. I am so relieved Apple has that feature for situations like that.
Thank goodness your friend's phone was able to notify her of the Airtag 😰 But imagine if it happened to a non-Apple user (assuming it only works for iPhones) or they are not as tech-savvy.. 😰😰😰
@@ashleydawn517 An Airtag is an tracker that apple made. Can you can connect the air tag to your Bluetooth. You can track where ever the air tag is. For example I have an air tag on my dogs collar so if she runs away I can find her
I truly think that the "social worker" was trying to find info about the couple so that she can kidnap the baby in the hospital. She would have then sold the baby to someone or in the black market through human trafficking. This woman is a great liar and I feel she has done this before. I hope she gets caught before she hurts another baby.
I read the book on that lady in Tennessee, who stole babies and adopted them out, she took them from poor people in the hospital because the police were helping her. Georgia Tann was awful. The book is Before We Were Yours. It is amazing. As a former CPS worker I was floored by this story.
So this kinda happened to me but when my son was a year old. A lady showed up and said she was DHS. I lived with my parents and she told me I wasn’t allowed to involve them. Told me I had to take a drug test and wanted to go a home check. I said absolutely not and she could come back with the police if she wanted inside. She never came back and DHS said they never had a report on me. She gave me a fake name of course. They never found her and I moved out of my parents shortly after.
It sounds like she was referring to Georgia Tann. She ran the Tennessee Home for Children and stole and adopted out hundreds (maybe thousands) of children. Rick Flair (WWE wrestler) was a baby who was stolen and adopted by another family due to Georgia Tann.
I wonder how other people fell for this if they were pretty convinced that it was an authority figure… it definitely sounds like she’s done this before
I was thinking maybe she was a dcs worker in another state and moved for the scam. That's how she seems so confident and like she knows what she's doing.
idk i feel like it would be pretty easy to fake being a cps worker since they wear plain clothes and i believe they just have business cards not badges or anything. plus they show up without warning.
@@johannahosa4910 I work in a hospital setting and we sometimes deal with CPS workers and they always have a badge on them we take and make a copy. We never give out info regarding any patient without seeing proper work ID
When I had my baby, they put a band on her that would trip an alarm and basically shut down the whole hospital down if someone tried to kidnap her. Hope that hospital has something similar!
Same! I would walk my son around the ward and set it off accidentally by walking to close to the door. I was about 2-3 feet away. It woke him up and crying pursued and the next day another new father did the same thing. I was so grateful for that security
we had the same security tag on our first born and it was proven very effective as they forgot to take it off our baby, we were stuck in-between 2 security doors with a cleaning lady who realised what had happened when neither door would open and a yellow light was flashing on the doors, she radioed the maternity ward as 2 security officers were calmly walking towards us, the nurse came running up behind us shouting its ok its the parents we forgot the tag, security stayed where they were while the nurse cut the tag off our baby and we showed our matching tags, we all had a chuckle and made friends with 1 of the security officers as i mentioned i worked security too and we realised we lived in the same town :)
The way yall were talking about Reddit is how I feel about tik tok these days. There are so many professionals using tik tok to spread awareness for their practice using their knowledge or even just people spreading awareness for various situations to help people like it’s just so amazing. Like how much I’ve learned on tik tok is amazing
@@myiamurphy8949 true but this women still would have had to identify a target and get their information in order to even try to look that information up. Just a scary thought all around.
It’s not that hard. So many people post publicly on social media about everything in their life. Even in the groups where you feel “safe” to share your life, you don’t know who those group members really are
if i were the couple, i would be having my house checked for cameras or microphones. who knows when she was doing the house checks, she could have planted something.
One of the first things I thought of after hearing that this was an imposter cps worker and that she had done a wellness check and searched the home, I hope these people had their home checked for bugs or other listening devices. If this was a possible child kidnapping case this lady would have had to either be watching them or listening to hear when they went to the hospital, right?
There was a girl on TIKTOK that had an air tag placed on her car while road tripping and she luckily was given this notification of an air tag being found nearby. I also had the thought, if you were to have an air tag somewhere on you, in the event of a kidnapping, and the kidnapper had an iPhone, wouldn’t it notify them?
I came from tiktok so fast to hear the update because the second you said CPS said they’d take the baby, I knew something was wrong. I had to hear it. You girls are awesome and making me want to start my own podcast/channel! 🤣❤️ Love it so much!
Not in all states. Cops come last. After case is closed or if there is abuse and the children are in immediate danger. The case worker comes first, she/he notifies and reports to their supervisor and then they make a decision whether to continue with the case. The case is mandatorily open for about a month… but if drug allegations are made two (drug) officers will be in contact within the week the case is being closed out on. CPS will indeed investigate a (pregnancy) if the mother has issues.. but nothing can ofc be done until the child is born. Which is why you have a DCF worker usually on the floor when you give birth.
In my area that's only when they're doing in a removal because it's not very trauma informed and is a great way to get off on a bad start with a family.
Something similar to this happened to my mother where her niece ( a grown women) and a friend that my mother was not on speaking terms with called my mother pretending to be cps to scare my mother saying they would take away me and my brother to get revenge. I’m glad Reddit helped this lady , this is extremely scary and should be looked into more . Always make sure that it’s an actual worker .
I remember hearing about a woman who was a single first time mom being told by someone claiming to the CPS and tried walking out to the hospital with the baby stating the mom was unfit. A big ordeal
My jaw literally HIT THE FLOOR!! I neeeeever thought about that. Like my mind didn’t even GO THERE! Literally the reddit community saved her child life! That’s amazing!! 😭😭😭
I worked for Indiana DCS too a few years ago, and yeah, my first thought was “The hotline would not have escalated a call to become an assessment on a pregnant woman with no other kids, that’s not a thing; also there’s no safety issue if the parents are clean for drugs and there are no drugs in the home”
if i’m not mistaken Georgia Tann is basically the reason the private adoption industry works. really good episode of Criminal with Phoebe Judge on it called “baby snatcher”
Imagine if that so called social worker was just a façade to kidnap children for human trafficking or something like that… that mom was so lucky that people on Reddit helped her
unfortunately someone has already caught on to putting airtags on girls cars to stalk them, I saw it on tiktok and people just called cap, sad that people are willing to ignore something that could save their life
How are they calling bs on that. Men put trackers on women’s cars already. Colton Underwood “the bachelor” settled out of court for putting a tracker on his ex girlfriend car and that happened in the last year
I saw this too!!! They told her she wasn't in "any real danger" so they couldn't do anything about it. Like.. WTFFF. They really do want people to just get kidnapped, assaulted, stalked, or murdered.
@@SavvyGirl751 yup!! They were saying that because the airtag showed up on this persons device that they must have planted it on their own car, but the airtags literally have that feature where if there is an airtag in range of your phone for a long enough time it’ll notify you. People just refuse to believe until something horrible happens!
@@yazzybananas3106 people will call cap alllll day long until something bad happens, then it’s “if only we knew and could’ve helped them 🥺”. Always too little too late
theres a case in mexico similar to the one they were talking about (georgia tann), its the case of an orphanage called La Gran Familia (i think) and the owner, who everyone called Mamá Rosa, accepted kida without a home or children so poor their parents just couldnt financially support them, she promissed to take care of them and the public thought the kids were being taken care of and were living wonderful lives, they even donated enormous amounts of money, clothes and food for them, but in reality she was stealing all the money giving nothing to the kids, letting some of them d1e from hunger or illnesses, letting men come in to r4pe the girls and if one of them got pregnant, most of the time the babies would d1e as newborns and they would bury them in the property. its just a horrific case and the worst part is that police and the goverment were allegedly involved
I knew kidnapping are hospitals happened & I told my bf & mom that one of them watching them at all times & not to let them out of their sight. These stories are crazy & the amount of mothers that had their baby taken from them is concerning.
I would have to move, I would never feel completely comfortable in my own home again. At the very least they need a major security system installed and a couple of large dogs.
Holy shit 😳😳😳 I’m a labor & delivery nurse AND an (legal) adoptive mama and this is absolutely TERRIFYING!!!!! 🥺 I would have never thought that was where this was going
I know we’re not supposed to have favourites but Alejandra is by far my favourite guest. She brings a certain energy and balanced takes that I just love!!
I totally agree with sharing location with people you trust. I’ve visualized sometime in the future my child would be like “mom can I go here” and I feel like being a good parent would be giving your child freedom but being like “tell me where your going and get permission please so I know where you are”
My goal as a future parent is for my kids to trust me enough to share their location with me willingly. I’ve been doing that with my mom and it makes us both feel safer. I know she won’t be spying on me but she will be able to figure out where I am if something bad ever happens
Oh my god this reminded me of this time I was watching a crime show with my mom. This lady who was obsessed with this guy, didn't want him to break up with her, so she pretended to be pregnant with twins, pretended to go to the hospital alone, pretended one of the "twins died in birth", and then posed as a social worker that aids young mothers, went to a young girl's home, and kidnapped the baby and killed the mom. It was literally so fucking creepy.
@@audreym3908 Nah that was a different story because the lady that went to go get the clothes actually hadn't given birth yet and the baby was cut out of her. She was also burned alive. That story is so fucked up it has stayed with me all these years. It made me super paranoid each time I was pregnant. The amount of times that pregnant/new moms are murdered while people steal their children is so unbelievably scary.
This reminds me of the movie "compliance" that is based on a real story abt how people blindly followed directions through the phone from what they thought was a police officer
That is absolutely terrifying! I’ve never even thought about something like this happening! I would have done everything said without question to get custody of my son and had him kidnapped. Omg this is so so scary! Thank god she reached out!
I sincerely hope that women had her baby safely and securely, how horrible! I'm also super glad my parents actively taught me to question authority figures if they seem unfair. Wow
I saw a story where a girl was out with a friend. They found an air-tag in one of their purses. They think it was from a guy they turned down at the bar. Apparently no doesn’t mean no to him.
These stories are becoming way to common. Wtf is wrong with people. Apple needs to come out with an app for android users to detect their air tags. This is not okay.
Backup plans and safety precautions are so vital, if not for real but perceived threats; I’m a large, middle aged, male who is physically imposing and I know that means nothing if someone is determined to me do harm; we’re all vulnerable, be safe out there everybody
Y’all it is so easy to find you online. Understand the more you “check in” at places around you the more info you share to all those “where was your first date” and similar posts, the more data is being mined on you. The easier it is to find you.
I've heard from another youtuber when they had their baby, hospitals nowadays (depends on where you're living) will have those hospital tags match the mother to their baby and the baby can't leave the floor (unless they're leaving the hospital to go home or for surgery or something) and it will beep/ set an alarm off if the baby leaves that floor without permission so babies won't be kidnapped.
This is so crazy and scary I wish she gave another update that her and her baby is okay, I heard this story on your Tiktok and I was like this ain’t making any sense with just some weed but what’s crazy is how did they know her boyfriend was arrested for weed
I’m only 8 minutes in and I just heard the update 😵 I really feel like I need like a year update on this to know if they stopped targeting her and her baby! I know me personally, I’d be worrying at every corner and turn and time I was home alone if someone in their trafficking group would still come back for the baby. 😦
My brothers wife lost all her children due to drugs. I knew instantly something was wrong. In my state you can absolutely take a baby home if they test positive for drugs. You just need a safety plan. And if a case isn’t open on another child they do nothing if a pregnant women is actively using.
Most maternity wards (unfortunately not all) will have bracelets that the babies have on that will automatically lock down to ward if taken to close to the doors. You also have to be authorized to even get near an infant. As well as other precautions to keep the infants separated. It of course still happens but I'm so happy she was helped by reddit!
My baby NEVER left my side. I had my mother and his father in the room with me and made it clear that neither of them was to take their eyes off of the baby. They did shots and hearing test in our room and the one time a nurse offered to take the baby out of the room for shots, An hour after he had already received his shots, I immediately told her to leave the room and wanted a new nurse. I made it clear in my chart that no one other than myself and his father were to leave the room with him. People are not well informed of your rights as a parent in the hospital and they really should be before choosing where to deliver… the only way my baby would have been away from me was if he had life threatening emergency..
I’m currently pregnant and going through investigation of CPS because I was subject to domestic violence in the past. Me and husband have gone through therapy and have recovered however the hospital social worker has caused major problems because I asked the hospital to if I could be referred to counseling service outside the hospital just as preventative method for mental relapse for depression . This is my first pregnancy and it’s been a horrible experience. Reading comments about child trafficking is also scaring me because me and my husband are having a mixed race baby too.
It sounds like someone went to a lot of trouble to match up old police records with pregnant women or their partners and targeting them specifically based on that. The kind of sad thing.... at least in PA ... if you're in poverty and on medicaid you get support systems that would make that kind of scam very difficult to pull off. The fact that they were doing well made them vulnerable.
If anyone wants to know which lady they’re talking about (baby seller/murd3r3r), it is Beulah George "Georgia" Tann. There was an ID episode of Deadly Women on her a few years ago. She would take babies and convince the mothers their babies had died and would either sell them or unalive them. One of her celebrity clients was Joan Crawford. Truly horrific! I’m glad that everything worked out for the OP! Seriously so scary and hope that “CPS” lady is caught!
This is why you should always look into things when you think something isn’t right at all if you have a bad feeling you should look into it even tho it might not be anything
Stories like these are why I don't trust anyone who calls me or shows up. I always contact the place they claim to be from to confirm before giving out any personal info
I now live on campus and with the sun going down early, there are often days when I walk home from class or the library sometimes as late as 2 am (it’s finals season) and i have a decent walk back to my dorm. This video freaked my out that I just spent the last of my savings on a self defense keychain. My pepper spray doesn’t always feel like enough.
That’s why they warn you at the hospital about people coming to your home afterwards and that the hospital never sends people to take your baby. So scary
I’m worst case scenario too. I prepare for any eventuality (drives people crazy), but I feel more comfortable knowing that if it may happen or may not happen I am at least prepared. Also, a motto I picked up during my self defense days. Better to be safe than sorry, and better to be paranoid than dead.
Every social worker or child protection person always has a identification badge and you always have the right to ask to see it before answering any questions or doing anything they ask
From what I've been hearing on tiktok (bear with) because of the increased birth control usage, and the pandemic (people just not going out) there's been a severe drop in unwanted pregnancies/adoptable babies. the original story is from a few years ago so I'm sure that the need for babies isn't like it is now. But the tiktoker, who was adopted, will show screenshots from an adoption group of the members trying to find ways to increase the amount of adoptable babies.
The only "investigation" a person I knew went through was police showing up at her late term appointment and it was the baby daddy that got arrested for false information 😂. Ain't no way cps is gonna investigate an old arrest record. Wouldn't even investigate my neighbor that let their toddler out by themselves and lived in a pigsty
No, they won’t investigate for an old drug arrest BUT in some states such as NJ, they will open a child welfare assessment if they believe the mother is actively doing drugs during pregnancy. It all depends on the state. NJ is one of them.
@@victoriasummers7444 no exactly, her baby daddy stated that she was doing drugs. Because they were at her appointment the doctor could clarify that it was bs
If you want to read a historical fiction book from the perspective of a child and her siblings that were abducted by Georgia Tann, it’s called ‘Before We Were Yours’. It’s sooo good and sad. Couldn’t put it down
This is so scary. She's been in her space. She knows where she's delivering. She's probably asked probing questions into their past. She knows where they live and they will feel on alert till she's found. Even after the birth. This woman has taken the safe space they were bringing their baby to. I'm so sorry they are going through this and hope she is found quickly.
I think at the beginning she said this was a story from a long time ago
She basically got everything out of them, she is like a personal freind I have no idea how I would even live in the same STATE at that point
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And the thing is, if she's a trafficker she likely had a whole group/"business" behind her.
i THINK SHE HAS BEEN CAUGHT. sHE WANTED A BABY AND COULDN'T HAVE ONE OR SOMETHING. i THIK SHE LIVED IN gARY OR SOMETHING. sHE STOLE SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY, AND SHE MIGHT'VE KILLED HER. i DON'T REMEMBER THE DETAILS, BUT THERE ARE DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT IT.
This is a perfect example of why blindly following “authority” is a dangerous culture.
A lot of people don’t have the option. A woman in the UK was murdered and r*ped by a police officer and the government said she should’ve resisted arrest but when black people do that they get shot and people say “they shouldn’t have resisted”
I’ve had cps come to my door and I refused to speak with them without a court order signed by a judge with a raised county seal
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@@dontburstmybubble686ask for a court order signed by a judge and verify that it’s legit before you let them in your home / speak with them.
I used to work for CPS and when I first listened to this in the full episode I knew something was off from the start!! In child trafficking it’s very common to request babies with certain characteristics. (Complexion, hair color, eye color, sex, etc) it’s very likely that the couple was targeted because of this, and the reason why she wasn’t sure if she’d take the baby yet was because they were waiting to see if it had the characteristics the buyer wanted. Thank god for the people who told her to contact a lawyer!! This could’ve gone so bad, so fast. Unfortunately, the system is VERY broken. It’s part of the reason I left.
That was my first thought too!!
Very fishy! I will be a Social Worker when I graduate in December this year and im rethinking if I want to go into CPS or if I do Adoption. I always wanted CPS but after this podcast i want to rethink it
@@MsGarcia10823 don’t let others sway your opinion on what you feel called to do as a career! Truthfully, CPS was one of the most fulfilling jobs I’ve had so far. I really enjoyed working one on one with families. That being said, my caseload was insane and I was burnt out really fast. CPS has a high turnover rate, rightfully so. It’s a very emotionally draining job. When I was there a lot of my cases were p*dophillia related, it was a lot to stomach. While CPS is a broken system, it’s not going to fix itself. We NEED good people to take on that job. If you feel that person is you, DO IT! Good luck, and congrats on graduating in December!!
@@MsGarcia10823 should be ashamed that your planning to be a child stealing social worker
@@megan4845 should be ashamed nothing to be proud of being a social worker
It's so sad, her first pregnancy experience was completely ruined by this crazy woman!
Ooh this is so true. She’s gonna be scared of having another child 😨😨
Yes she may might have trauma with having a other child or be over protective or might have thoughts of dying
That’s absolutely terrifying. I would have never even considered that. Thank goodness for Reddit.
I have never heard of something like this happening. I would legit be just like the mom and fall for everything just because how much we follow authority. I’m glad she got advice before her labor.
Always question things! If there is nothing to hide people will not mind questions.
I have seen a couple videos where this has happened to some women, taking their babies from them at the hospital
Sadly this has happened quite a few times, especially to minority women. A case is actually currently going on I forget the women's name but cps took her child and and tried to stop them from leaving the hospital with a absolutely no cause
I had my son Tues morning via c-section. I'm so grateful I had him before hearing this. I watch enough true crime content. I can't imagine how that woman is feeling. Thank God for Reddit.
Congrats! I'm currently 20 weeks and so glad I heard this story because I never even thought something like this could happen.
CONGRATS
Congratulations on your precious little prince! I'm currently 32 weeks pregnant with my second baby, and hearing things like this literally terrifies me. Especially with so many people coming forward saying their babies were taken away for no good reason by CPS. Makes me almost wish I could just give birth at home so I don't have to fear them barging in to my hospital room and stealing my baby girl out of my arms.
Congrats ladies! 27 weeks here I am so excited, this story made me livid!
Congrats
Someone recently put an airtag on my best friend's car to track her. The only reason she knew was because of the alert that came up on her phone telling her it was following her. I am so relieved Apple has that feature for situations like that.
this happened to me too about three weeks ago!!!
Thank goodness your friend's phone was able to notify her of the Airtag 😰
But imagine if it happened to a non-Apple user (assuming it only works for iPhones) or they are not as tech-savvy.. 😰😰😰
This literally makes me want to get an iPhone just so I won't get tracked down 😭
Can you explain what an airtag is?
@@ashleydawn517 An Airtag is an tracker that apple made. Can you can connect the air tag to your Bluetooth. You can track where ever the air tag is. For example I have an air tag on my dogs collar so if she runs away I can find her
I truly think that the "social worker" was trying to find info about the couple so that she can kidnap the baby in the hospital. She would have then sold the baby to someone or in the black market through human trafficking. This woman is a great liar and I feel she has done this before. I hope she gets caught before she hurts another baby.
I have questions did she have a badge when she showed up to their house? So she did the drug testing?
i think they already sold her but wanted to see if the baby fit the description
@@dianadiakaki9767 who knows?
Social workers are genuinely just scum
I ALWAYS DEMAND A COURT ORDER FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CPS WORKERS! I don’t trust them at all
I read the book on that lady in Tennessee, who stole babies and adopted them out, she took them from poor people in the hospital because the police were helping her. Georgia Tann was awful. The book is Before We Were Yours. It is amazing. As a former CPS worker I was floored by this story.
So this kinda happened to me but when my son was a year old. A lady showed up and said she was DHS. I lived with my parents and she told me I wasn’t allowed to involve them. Told me I had to take a drug test and wanted to go a home check. I said absolutely not and she could come back with the police if she wanted inside. She never came back and DHS said they never had a report on me. She gave me a fake name of course. They never found her and I moved out of my parents shortly after.
It’s a pity she disappeared, she should have been arrested :( I’m glad you and your baby are okay
It sounds like she was referring to Georgia Tann. She ran the Tennessee Home for Children and stole and adopted out hundreds (maybe thousands) of children. Rick Flair (WWE wrestler) was a baby who was stolen and adopted by another family due to Georgia Tann.
She was they put it up there did you not see it?
@@leamorton1796 i think she was listening to the vid instead of watching like most of us do
I had no idea this happened to Rick Flair.
I wonder how other people fell for this if they were pretty convinced that it was an authority figure… it definitely sounds like she’s done this before
I was thinking maybe she was a dcs worker in another state and moved for the scam. That's how she seems so confident and like she knows what she's doing.
@@andimabouttobreak or they’ve dealt with cps before so they know the ordeal.
idk i feel like it would be pretty easy to fake being a cps worker since they wear plain clothes and i believe they just have business cards not badges or anything. plus they show up without warning.
ABSOLUTELY!! And that’s terrifying
@@johannahosa4910 I work in a hospital setting and we sometimes deal with CPS workers and they always have a badge on them we take and make a copy. We never give out info regarding any patient without seeing proper work ID
When I had my baby, they put a band on her that would trip an alarm and basically shut down the whole hospital down if someone tried to kidnap her. Hope that hospital has something similar!
It is devastatingly sad that hospitals even have to do stuff like that
@@mistermanman true, but this also happens for if the babies were switched at birth by accident).
Same! I would walk my son around the ward and set it off accidentally by walking to close to the door. I was about 2-3 feet away. It woke him up and crying pursued and the next day another new father did the same thing. I was so grateful for that security
we had the same security tag on our first born and it was proven very effective as they forgot to take it off our baby, we were stuck in-between 2 security doors with a cleaning lady who realised what had happened when neither door would open and a yellow light was flashing on the doors, she radioed the maternity ward as 2 security officers were calmly walking towards us, the nurse came running up behind us shouting its ok its the parents we forgot the tag, security stayed where they were while the nurse cut the tag off our baby and we showed our matching tags, we all had a chuckle and made friends with 1 of the security officers as i mentioned i worked security too and we realised we lived in the same town :)
The way yall were talking about Reddit is how I feel about tik tok these days. There are so many professionals using tik tok to spread awareness for their practice using their knowledge or even just people spreading awareness for various situations to help people like it’s just so amazing. Like how much I’ve learned on tik tok is amazing
Honestly what is even scarier is how this women came to "choose" this couple and got information on them to even be able to pose as a worker!
Criminal records are public records so it probably wouldn’t take to much to find them.
@@myiamurphy8949 true but this women still would have had to identify a target and get their information in order to even try to look that information up. Just a scary thought all around.
It’s not that hard. So many people post publicly on social media about everything in their life. Even in the groups where you feel “safe” to share your life, you don’t know who those group members really are
@@SlythLexy ya, I assumed she had seen some posts on social media about the pregnancy and decided to target them
if i were the couple, i would be having my house checked for cameras or microphones. who knows when she was doing the house checks, she could have planted something.
One of the first things I thought of after hearing that this was an imposter cps worker and that she had done a wellness check and searched the home, I hope these people had their home checked for bugs or other listening devices. If this was a possible child kidnapping case this lady would have had to either be watching them or listening to hear when they went to the hospital, right?
Fellow Minnesotan. Just discovered this podcast yesterday... been binging these. I'm hooked 💗💗
So glad you found us!! The more Minnesotans we get the better :))
@@TwoHotTakes absolutely. Do you miss the MN winters? Every winter I ask myself why TF am I still in this state 🤣
@@imjustanasshlesometimes3488 i ask myself that every year!
Minnesota for the win. I love being a Minnesotan.
I tell myself it is better to deal with the winter then the big bugs that other states have lol.
There was a girl on TIKTOK that had an air tag placed on her car while road tripping and she luckily was given this notification of an air tag being found nearby. I also had the thought, if you were to have an air tag somewhere on you, in the event of a kidnapping, and the kidnapper had an iPhone, wouldn’t it notify them?
i was looking for someone to mention this....it could help but also make things a lot more dangerous. i was waiting for one of them to bring that up
I thought air tags only work for so many miles possibly???
I came from tiktok so fast to hear the update because the second you said CPS said they’d take the baby, I knew something was wrong. I had to hear it. You girls are awesome and making me want to start my own podcast/channel! 🤣❤️ Love it so much!
CPS at least in my state will never come to your house without a police officer.
Not in all states. Cops come last. After case is closed or if there is abuse and the children are in immediate danger. The case worker comes first, she/he notifies and reports to their supervisor and then they make a decision whether to continue with the case. The case is mandatorily open for about a month… but if drug allegations are made two (drug) officers will be in contact within the week the case is being closed out on. CPS will indeed investigate a (pregnancy) if the mother has issues.. but nothing can ofc be done until the child is born. Which is why you have a DCF worker usually on the floor when you give birth.
In my area that's only when they're doing in a removal because it's not very trauma informed and is a great way to get off on a bad start with a family.
Here they will not come into your home to even start an investigation without a police officer(they’re typically not in full uniform, polo/khakis).
In NJ, cps will come to your house without police unless it is a potential dangerous situation.
Not in Iowa.
Something similar to this happened to my mother where her niece ( a grown women) and a friend that my mother was not on speaking terms with called my mother pretending to be cps to scare my mother saying they would take away me and my brother to get revenge. I’m glad Reddit helped this lady , this is extremely scary and should be looked into more . Always make sure that it’s an actual worker .
I remember hearing about a woman who was a single first time mom being told by someone claiming to the CPS and tried walking out to the hospital with the baby stating the mom was unfit. A big ordeal
My jaw literally HIT THE FLOOR!! I neeeeever thought about that. Like my mind didn’t even GO THERE! Literally the reddit community saved her child life! That’s amazing!! 😭😭😭
I worked for Indiana DCS too a few years ago, and yeah, my first thought was “The hotline would not have escalated a call to become an assessment on a pregnant woman with no other kids, that’s not a thing; also there’s no safety issue if the parents are clean for drugs and there are no drugs in the home”
I love the one story version of your full podcast. I can’t listen to a whole episode at once so these little snippets are great.
if i’m not mistaken Georgia Tann is basically the reason the private adoption industry works. really good episode of Criminal with Phoebe Judge on it called “baby snatcher”
Imagine if that so called social worker was just a façade to kidnap children for human trafficking or something like that… that mom was so lucky that people on Reddit helped her
unfortunately someone has already caught on to putting airtags on girls cars to stalk them, I saw it on tiktok and people just called cap, sad that people are willing to ignore something that could save their life
How are they calling bs on that. Men put trackers on women’s cars already. Colton Underwood “the bachelor” settled out of court for putting a tracker on his ex girlfriend car and that happened in the last year
I saw this too!!! They told her she wasn't in "any real danger" so they couldn't do anything about it. Like.. WTFFF. They really do want people to just get kidnapped, assaulted, stalked, or murdered.
@@SavvyGirl751 yup!! They were saying that because the airtag showed up on this persons device that they must have planted it on their own car, but the airtags literally have that feature where if there is an airtag in range of your phone for a long enough time it’ll notify you. People just refuse to believe until something horrible happens!
@@yazzybananas3106 people will call cap alllll day long until something bad happens, then it’s “if only we knew and could’ve helped them 🥺”. Always too little too late
I would move that woman has been in your home!!!!
It would be interesting to have an update after the baby is born.
it's four years old the baby should already be born. No?
@@k4mohelo_ I didn’t realize that. I apologize.
It would be nice to know if the woman was caught. It makes me wonder how many times she got away with her terrifying scheme.
That’s possibly the scariest CPS story I’ve ever heard. That baby would’ve been kidnapped and sold if it wasn’t for Reddit
As a CPS worker I said the samething. Something seems off. Contact the person supervisor, ask for an ID or badge.
As soon as she said she didn't have other children I knew she was being conned her baby would have been taken I'm glad she posted and asked for help
theres a case in mexico similar to the one they were talking about (georgia tann), its the case of an orphanage called La Gran Familia (i think) and the owner, who everyone called Mamá Rosa, accepted kida without a home or children so poor their parents just couldnt financially support them, she promissed to take care of them and the public thought the kids were being taken care of and were living wonderful lives, they even donated enormous amounts of money, clothes and food for them, but in reality she was stealing all the money giving nothing to the kids, letting some of them d1e from hunger or illnesses, letting men come in to r4pe the girls and if one of them got pregnant, most of the time the babies would d1e as newborns and they would bury them in the property. its just a horrific case and the worst part is that police and the goverment were allegedly involved
Heart breaking and utterly disgusting
ur videos r soo good i wach them while doing everything
I knew kidnapping are hospitals happened & I told my bf & mom that one of them watching them at all times & not to let them out of their sight. These stories are crazy & the amount of mothers that had their baby taken from them is concerning.
The fact she let this woman in her home makes my skin crawl. So scary!
I would have to move, I would never feel completely comfortable in my own home again. At the very least they need a major security system installed and a couple of large dogs.
Holy shit 😳😳😳 I’m a labor & delivery nurse AND an (legal) adoptive mama and this is absolutely TERRIFYING!!!!! 🥺 I would have never thought that was where this was going
I just heard the story and thought it was strange when the baby isn’t even born now after hearing everything it is absolutely mind boggling
I know we’re not supposed to have favourites but Alejandra is by far my favourite guest. She brings a certain energy and balanced takes that I just love!!
She has been in the house, has seen every inch of the house and probs knows how to break in and take the baby if she wanted to, which is horrifying
Absolutely INSANE dude. Thank God she thought to post that, and thank God those workers did reach out.
One of my life mottos its "hope for the best, get ready for the worst"
All I can say is thank god for Reddit and for people who helped this lady! This is truly horrifying!
I totally agree with sharing location with people you trust. I’ve visualized sometime in the future my child would be like “mom can I go here” and I feel like being a good parent would be giving your child freedom but being like “tell me where your going and get permission please so I know where you are”
My goal as a future parent is for my kids to trust me enough to share their location with me willingly. I’ve been doing that with my mom and it makes us both feel safer. I know she won’t be spying on me but she will be able to figure out where I am if something bad ever happens
ALWAYS listening to your podcast when I'm working since you guys calm my nerves and make work stress-free ❤ Hi from the Philippines 👋🏻
Oh my god this reminded me of this time I was watching a crime show with my mom. This lady who was obsessed with this guy, didn't want him to break up with her, so she pretended to be pregnant with twins, pretended to go to the hospital alone, pretended one of the "twins died in birth", and then posed as a social worker that aids young mothers, went to a young girl's home, and kidnapped the baby and killed the mom. It was literally so fucking creepy.
I think I remembered that one. She wanted to get baby clothes or something
@@audreym3908 Nah that was a different story because the lady that went to go get the clothes actually hadn't given birth yet and the baby was cut out of her. She was also burned alive. That story is so fucked up it has stayed with me all these years. It made me super paranoid each time I was pregnant. The amount of times that pregnant/new moms are murdered while people steal their children is so unbelievably scary.
This reminds me of the movie "compliance" that is based on a real story abt how people blindly followed directions through the phone from what they thought was a police officer
I watched that movie, it’s so fucked up
I’ve been binging your content for a while now, this story is absolutely crazy! Thank god for reddit giving this woman good information.
That is absolutely terrifying! I’ve never even thought about something like this happening! I would have done everything said without question to get custody of my son and had him kidnapped. Omg this is so so scary! Thank god she reached out!
“This is just something that has to happen!” Thank god she had a good enough instinct to ask questions
I sincerely hope that women had her baby safely and securely, how horrible!
I'm also super glad my parents actively taught me to question authority figures if they seem unfair. Wow
These are so great I didn’t even know you had RUclips😭❤️
Omg yesss come join us
I saw a story where a girl was out with a friend. They found an air-tag in one of their purses. They think it was from a guy they turned down at the bar. Apparently no doesn’t mean no to him.
These stories are becoming way to common. Wtf is wrong with people. Apple needs to come out with an app for android users to detect their air tags. This is not okay.
Backup plans and safety precautions are so vital, if not for real but perceived threats; I’m a large, middle aged, male who is physically imposing and I know that means nothing if someone is determined to me do harm; we’re all vulnerable, be safe out there everybody
Y’all it is so easy to find you online. Understand the more you “check in” at places around you the more info you share to all those “where was your first date” and similar posts, the more data is being mined on you. The easier it is to find you.
I feel like I would be too afraid to go home since that woman has been through their house and knows the layout and details. God, so scary!
I've heard from another youtuber when they had their baby, hospitals nowadays (depends on where you're living) will have those hospital tags match the mother to their baby and the baby can't leave the floor (unless they're leaving the hospital to go home or for surgery or something) and it will beep/ set an alarm off if the baby leaves that floor without permission so babies won't be kidnapped.
This is so crazy and scary I wish she gave another update that her and her baby is okay, I heard this story on your Tiktok and I was like this ain’t making any sense with just some weed but what’s crazy is how did they know her boyfriend was arrested for weed
I’m only 8 minutes in and I just heard the update 😵 I really feel like I need like a year update on this to know if they stopped targeting her and her baby! I know me personally, I’d be worrying at every corner and turn and time I was home alone if someone in their trafficking group would still come back for the baby. 😦
My first thought is to pack the hell up and leave the state and get a lawyer. This does not sound right.
My brothers wife lost all her children due to drugs. I knew instantly something was wrong. In my state you can absolutely take a baby home if they test positive for drugs. You just need a safety plan. And if a case isn’t open on another child they do nothing if a pregnant women is actively using.
Would u consider doing an episode dedicated just to listener write ins?
Definitely :) I think paranormal will come in two parts.. listener write ins and then reddit. But going to do more down the road too
came looking for this exact episode after seeing the first part on tiktok. crazy story!!!
Most maternity wards (unfortunately not all) will have bracelets that the babies have on that will automatically lock down to ward if taken to close to the doors. You also have to be authorized to even get near an infant. As well as other precautions to keep the infants separated.
It of course still happens but I'm so happy she was helped by reddit!
Maybe it’s because I’m from the UK so it works differently but why is the baby ever out of mum and dads sight anyway?
@@Bringon-dw8dx in the US you can send your baby to the nursery. They also take them for shots, hearing tests, etc.
@@haleysmith1626 another way to get more money probably. In the uk baby stays with mum
My baby NEVER left my side. I had my mother and his father in the room with me and made it clear that neither of them was to take their eyes off of the baby. They did shots and hearing test in our room and the one time a nurse offered to take the baby out of the room for shots, An hour after he had already received his shots, I immediately told her to leave the room and wanted a new nurse. I made it clear in my chart that no one other than myself and his father were to leave the room with him. People are not well informed of your rights as a parent in the hospital and they really should be before choosing where to deliver… the only way my baby would have been away from me was if he had life threatening emergency..
Thank you for giving me a name for this. Seriously! I’m a positive person but I usually see the problem first too.
This is like a lifetime movie and as a pregnant woman, it is horrifying!!!
Lifetime should really make this into a movie. would be a hit!
there was a book written based on the Georgia Tann kids called "Before we were yours"
Also used to work for CPS, as soon as she mentioned being taken in delivery - and then knowing it’s a fetus they’re “investigating” it was fishy!
I'm obsessed with your tiktoks!!
I’m currently pregnant and going through investigation of CPS because I was subject to domestic violence in the past. Me and husband have gone through therapy and have recovered however the hospital social worker has caused major problems because I asked the hospital to if I could be referred to counseling service outside the hospital just as preventative method for mental relapse for depression . This is my first pregnancy and it’s been a horrible experience. Reading comments about child trafficking is also scaring me because me and my husband are having a mixed race baby too.
I love your podcast I listen to them while at work and cleaning my house 😃
This is completely scary that this happened. This is great that someone can help out and catch this
It sounds like someone went to a lot of trouble to match up old police records with pregnant women or their partners and targeting them specifically based on that. The kind of sad thing.... at least in PA ... if you're in poverty and on medicaid you get support systems that would make that kind of scam very difficult to pull off. The fact that they were doing well made them vulnerable.
“Be weird, be rude, stay alive”
I legit sprinted here from tik tok
Same🤣
Me too. Me fckn too
Saaaaame
Came straight from tiktok! Looooove these stories
If anyone wants to know which lady they’re talking about (baby seller/murd3r3r), it is Beulah George "Georgia" Tann. There was an ID episode of Deadly Women on her a few years ago. She would take babies and convince the mothers their babies had died and would either sell them or unalive them. One of her celebrity clients was Joan Crawford. Truly horrific!
I’m glad that everything worked out for the OP! Seriously so scary and hope that “CPS” lady is caught!
This is why you should always look into things when you think something isn’t right at all if you have a bad feeling you should look into it even tho it might not be anything
Be weird, be rude, stay alive is the best motto
Stories like these are why I don't trust anyone who calls me or shows up. I always contact the place they claim to be from to confirm before giving out any personal info
I’m currently 20 weeks pregnant with my first child and I’m so glad I saw this.
I now live on campus and with the sun going down early, there are often days when I walk home from class or the library sometimes as late as 2 am (it’s finals season) and i have a decent walk back to my dorm. This video freaked my out that I just spent the last of my savings on a self defense keychain. My pepper spray doesn’t always feel like enough.
That’s why they warn you at the hospital about people coming to your home afterwards and that the hospital never sends people to take your baby. So scary
I’m worst case scenario too. I prepare for any eventuality (drives people crazy), but I feel more comfortable knowing that if it may happen or may not happen I am at least prepared. Also, a motto I picked up during my self defense days. Better to be safe than sorry, and better to be paranoid than dead.
That is absolutely terrifying.
Every social worker or child protection person always has a identification badge and you always have the right to ask to see it before answering any questions or doing anything they ask
From what I've been hearing on tiktok (bear with) because of the increased birth control usage, and the pandemic (people just not going out) there's been a severe drop in unwanted pregnancies/adoptable babies. the original story is from a few years ago so I'm sure that the need for babies isn't like it is now. But the tiktoker, who was adopted, will show screenshots from an adoption group of the members trying to find ways to increase the amount of adoptable babies.
Ugh! I want another update!!!!! I want to know that the crazy person was busted and the mama and baby are safe and doing well.
The only "investigation" a person I knew went through was police showing up at her late term appointment and it was the baby daddy that got arrested for false information 😂. Ain't no way cps is gonna investigate an old arrest record. Wouldn't even investigate my neighbor that let their toddler out by themselves and lived in a pigsty
No, they won’t investigate for an old drug arrest BUT in some states such as NJ, they will open a child welfare assessment if they believe the mother is actively doing drugs during pregnancy. It all depends on the state. NJ is one of them.
@@victoriasummers7444 no exactly, her baby daddy stated that she was doing drugs. Because they were at her appointment the doctor could clarify that it was bs
@@alexn8035 sure they will get involved in some states if they suspect drug use. It depends on the state.
The safety and wellbeing of her baby was at risk and her mother's intuition kicked in 10 fold
Absolutely get a lawyer.
Well now imma confirm the identities of anybody that comes to my house.
New fear: Unlocked 😢
I saw your tik tok and I'm officially a new subscriber! Love the videos
So glad you’re joining us :))
If you want to read a historical fiction book from the perspective of a child and her siblings that were abducted by Georgia Tann, it’s called ‘Before We Were Yours’. It’s sooo good and sad. Couldn’t put it down
We need more crazy stories like this!
I have air tags on all 3 of my animals, on my keys, and in my kid's backpack