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Mom’s TikTok Scroll Turns Into a Nightmare When She Spots Her Baby Girl on Adoption Page and Sees What Strangers Are Willing to Pay

What started as an ordinary TikTok scroll turned into every parent’s worst nightmare when a mother stumbled across her own daughter on a fake adoption page.

By | Published on November 12, 2026
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A mother’s heart dropped when she saw her baby girl supposedly up for adoption on TikTok.

Ty Lawrence, who shared her shocking story across social media, sprang into action. She asked others to report the scam account on Nov. 9. The account owner has since taken the page down.

Orphanage Adoption Services, which used the TikTok handle @genuineadoptionservices, posted a photo of Lawrence’s daughter that she says the account stole from one of her public social media profiles.

Mother finds daughter on fake adoption page. (Photo: Facebook/ Ty Lawrence)

“There’s people asking how they can get her and start ‘paperwork’ and HOW MUCH she is,” she wrote in a public warning. She added, “Lesson learned about posting my kid on social media.”

Lawrence is hardly the first parent to share her child’s photo on a public-facing social media account. But her story serves as a reminder of just how easy it is for scammers and predators to steal images and use them for nefarious purposes.

Lawrence’s experience has parents everywhere reevaluating what they share online and understanding the risks.

The concern reaches well beyond stolen photos. The use of AI and deepfakes to manipulate photos of children has become a global crisis.

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, reports involving generative AI, which collects tips from around the world, skyrocketed from 4,700 in 2023 to more than 400,000 in 2025.

Many suspected scammers are hard to spot. Orphanage Adoption Services claimed it was licensed in Missouri and had accumulated more than 41,000 “likes,” according to a screenshot Lawrence provided. They reportedly targeted women who had experienced miscarriages or infertility issues, promising to connect them with newborns.

In one warning, she shared a screenshot showing eight videos of tiny newborns allegedly up for adoption.

Lawrence’s posts quickly surpassed 2 million views, and on Nov. 9, she said the account switched from public to private and blocked her. By Nov. 10, their TikTok had gone dark.

Atlanta Black Star has reached out to Lawrence for comment and has not yet heard back.

“Looks like we all got the account deleted or at least the videos removed!” Lawrence wrote in a Nov. 10 update.

She ended with the advice: “Please be careful posting your children online, there’s a lot of weird people in this world.”

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