50-Yrs Post Baby-Selling, Gainesville Pain Still Lingers
On Nov. 24, 1958, teenager Barbara Johnson held the daughter she had just given birth to at a doctor’s office in Williston, looked into her blue eyes and said, “Some day, you will come find me. I know you will — you’ve got to.” Today, 70-year-old Barbara Johnson Weeks Rainey is living in Alabama and still waiting to find the daughter she gave life to and then gave up to what she thought was a legitimate adoption agency in Gainesville. What she says she later discovered was that “Col.” Robert Ryan, the man running Gainesville’s Southern Rescue Workers’ maternity home — the unlicensed facility where Barbara lived during her pregnancy — was actually selling the babies born of the mothers living there.
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By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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