Mysterious Disappearances Of Tavish Sutton

2021-08-23 17:06:10 Written by Jones Jay

Tavish Sutton, one-month-old, was recovering from minor surgery to treat an abscess in a semi-private room in the pediatric ward during the early morning hours of March 9, 1993, at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital.

His roommate was another baby, and that baby's mother and sister were spending the night in the same room as well. A nurse checked in on them at 6:45 a.m.; at the time, Tavish's roommate's mother and sister were asleep on a couch in the room. Fifteen minutes later, during a second check by the nurse, Tavish was gone. Police concentrated on Tavish's roommate's family; their home was searched and all the family members were questioned. They were eventually cleared as suspects in the case. Tavish's mother, Wanda Sutton, who was being treated for schizophrenia at a mental institution at the time, and other family members were not considered suspects in his abduction as anyone in his birth family was ever even aware that Tavish was in the hospital at the time of his kidnapping.

 

There were two persons of interest in Tavish's disappearance. One was an "agitated" man who tried to enter the hospital's pediatric wing after 8:30 p.m. the night before Tavish was last seen. This man didn't have the required authorization pass required to enter the children’s wing after 8:30 p.m. and he had no reason to be there. The man is described as tall and thin and was wearing a baseball cap. He vanished before security could be called. The second person of interest was a woman aged about 25 years old, described as 5'5 and 160 pounds, with a medium-brown complexion, strong cheekbones, and almond-shaped eyes. She wore black pants, a long black coat, and large earrings, and her hair was pulled back with a large bow. She was carrying an infant with curly hair. A man saw the woman just outside the hospital and noticed her because she was very impressive. Another witness saw the same woman inside the hospital.

The Department of Child and Family Services terminated Wanda’s parental rights to Tavis’ three siblings and was seeking to terminate her rights to Tavish as well when he vanished; they had taken custody of the baby when he was a few weeks old and placed him with a foster family. Wanda filed a delinquency suit against Grady Memorial Hospital in March 1995 stating the hospital did not have proper security measures in place to prevent the abduction. The hospital settled out of court for $600,000 in 1996. Authorities thought that a woman who was pretending to be pregnant may have kidnaped Tavish in an attempt to raise a child. They believed she lived between four and twenty-four miles from the hospital.

 

Tavish remains missing to this day. Anyone with evidence concerning Tavish Sutton’s kidnapping or current whereabouts is asked to call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843- 5678.

A total of eight babies were abducted between 1978-1996 —all African-American and all born to mothers who, on average, were 18 years old. Seven were taken from Grady Hospital and one was taken from the mother’s home after being followed from the maternity ward.

 

Of those eight, Tavish and Raymond Green are still missing.

 

Questions:

 

Could hospital personnel be involved? It appears only a few people knew about Tavish's stay at the hospital.