Amy Khvitia and her twin sister Ano are believed to be among the many babies stolen at birth from Georgia hospitals. They were taken from their mothers, then sold separately to families. Years later, it was thanks to a video published on Tiktok that they found each other.
When she was 12 years old, Amy Khvitia had the impression of spotting her double on a television show “Georgia’s Got Talent.” Those around her even think they see her on the screen, but her mother replies that it is a double, brushing aside all questions. The young woman then begins her research. Seven years later, struck by their resemblance, a friend of Ano Sartania sent her a video of Amy, published on the Tiktok platform. One thing led to another, via a WhatsApp group, the two twins managed to connect and found each other in 2021. “It was like looking in a mirror; exactly the same face, exactly the same voice. I am her and she is me” Amy told the BBC.
The two young women then question their respective families, who admit to having adopted them in 2002 a few weeks apart, without knowing that they had a twin sister. According to the British media, they were thinking of welcoming an unwanted baby who was in the hospital, but the staff told them that they had to pay a certain amount to the doctors to be able to adopt them. In reality, a completely different story would have happened. Many babies have indeed been stolen in Georgia, from hospitals. Taken from their biological mother at birth, Amy and Ano were then separated and sold to these foster families.
Thanks to a Facebook group aimed at reuniting these stolen babies, the twin sisters managed to find their mother: a German woman named Aza. When her daughters were born at the Kirtskhi maternity hospital in western Georgia, she fell into a coma. But his awakening was brutal as the doctors told him that his twins had died. For this previously bereaved mother, the reunion was a relief. The Georgian government is still trying to investigate this child trafficking which is said to have caused thousands of victims. Each time, the birth certificates seem inconsistent. According to journalist Tamuna Museridze, who was also adopted, there are up to 100,000 babies stolen.