Amy Khvitia and Ano Sartania were twin sisters born in 2002 in Georgia were separated at birth and then sold to different families. The twins lived only 200 miles away from each other until they were able to find each other years later, exactly 19 years, because of a social media platform known as TikTok.
Their story began when Amy, residing by the Black Sea, watched Ano on Georgia’s Got Talent in 2014. On the other side, it wasn’t until 2021 that Ano—by then 19—stumbled into a TikTok video of Amy having her eyebrow pierced. It is the uncanny resemblance that takes Ano to share the video in a university WhatsApp group and later connect on Facebook, only to realize that they not only bear a striking resemblance but happened to have been born on the same day and even sport the same hairstyle, interests, and medical conditions. Their curiosity started nagging them to press for answers from their adoptive families, and they began investigating their roots.
The twin was born in 2002 at Kirtskhi maternity hospital in western Georgia. Neither adoptive family knew about the twin birth, having been lied to that the babies were unwanted and that it cost money to take their infant’s home. It was part of a larger scheme of baby trafficking in Georgia, where countless families were informed of the death of their newborns, only for the children to turn up sold on the illegal market.
Then, Amy and Ano joined a Facebook group set up to reunite children from Georgia with their biological parents. They became acquainted with another lady who believed that she had also lost twin daughters at the same Kirtskhi maternity hospital where Amy and Ano were born. The twins eventually did meet up with their blood mother, Aza, who told them that she was informed they died after she fell into a coma during childbirth.
The story uncovers the very dark history of baby trafficking in Georgia, through which many newborns were reported as dead only to sell them to adoptive parents who would never have known the illegal nature of such deals.
