She had been looking for her parents for almost ten years. In 2016, Tamuna Museridze, a 32-year-old Georgian journalist, emptied her recently deceased mother's house and discovered her birth certificate. Problem, the date does not coincide.
The young woman then discovers that she was in fact adopted, and decides to set out in search of her biological parents.
Discovery of baby trafficking
In 2021, she created the group “Vedzeb” on Facebook (I'm looking for). It is thanks to this group that the journalist will discover a vast baby trafficking operation which took place between 1950 and 2005.
“I was a reporter on this story, but it was also a personal mission for me” tells the young woman to the BBC.
Tamuna ends up receiving a message from a woman who claims to know a woman who experienced a hidden pregnancy and who gave birth on the dates corresponding to her birth, in September 1984. She claims to be the niece of Tamuna's mother.
One thing led to another, Tamuna found her mother's name and managed to reconnect with her.
But the meeting does not go as planned.
“She started screaming, screaming, she said that she had not given birth to a child. She wanted nothing to do with me“, reports the young woman.
The father followed his daughter's research without knowing it
It was by taking a DNA test with a woman who claimed to be his cousin that the relationship was established. Tamuna's mother then admits to having had a brief one-night stand and giving her baby up for adoption.
She then agrees to give him her father's name: Gurgen Korava.
Tamuna then discovers that she is already friends on Facebook with the latter, who also follows her research in the “I'm looking for” group. They meet.
“As soon as he saw me, he knew I was his daughter. I felt so many conflicting emotions” traces the young woman.
