In an incredible story, twin sisters reunited after being separated and sold when they were children, 22 years ago, through a TikTok video. The story began when "Amy" and "Ano" were born in Georgia in 2002, but were stolen from their mother and sold in an illegal adoption market believed to be linked to organized crime. Their mother was told that the babies had died.
Years later, one of the twins, Amy Khvetia, recognized her sister at the age of 12 when she appeared on an episode of the well-known talent show Georgia’s Got Talent, according to a report by the Telegraph. The other sister, Ano Sartania, became suspicious seven years later that Amy might be her sister when a friend sent her a TikTok video and she noticed their similarities.
Since then, the sisters have been reunited with the help of a mutual friend on Facebook, discovering that they were separated after being sold by a secret Georgian gang involved in child trafficking, which was selling children for adoption from the early 1950s until 2005.
The adoptive families of the sisters revealed that they were unable to have children and were offered to adopt a baby at Curtis B. Hayes Hospital in West Georgia, stating they did not know that this practice was illegal. The twins used a Facebook page aimed at reuniting missing children who had been trafficked, where they managed to find each other and meet in Leipzig.
Their mother explained to them that she fell into a coma after giving birth and was later told that they had died. It is noted that the phenomenon of child adoption trafficking, believed to be connected to criminal gangs working with corrupt hospital officials, decreased since 2005 when Georgia changed its adoption laws and strengthened the protections against this practice.
In 2022, the government launched an investigation into the scandal but stated that it had only spoken to 40 people affected by the phenomenon, as the maternal records were "very old and historical data was lost."
