This week, we’re covering a hometown story for me, full of baby selling, sketchy ‘doctors’, deaths and a refusal to listen to any reason. This week we’re doing the baby farming ways of the Ideal Maternity Home, Lila and William Young, and the infamous Butterbox Babies.

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