Prime Time: The Secret Baby Trail

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Prime Time: The Secret Baby Trail

This programme uncovered the export of Irish children in Mother and Baby homes to adoptive parents in America. The programme talks to mothers whose children were taken from them, to the children who grew up in the US, and to nuns as well. First broadcast: 20/06/1996


http://www.rte.ie/player/us/show/10291719/


This is a 37 minute video first broadcast in Ireland June 20, 1996. Excellent show that will shed light on not only the homes for unwed mothers in Ireland, but to the entire Baby Scoop Era as well.

The Sister interviewed here may only reluctantly agree to "registers" for mothers and their children to find each other, but Ireland is now on the brink of opening the records completely. Woot!

[Warpy]

1. On the brink, but the nuns who are covering up old crimes

like sending children whose parents had married and legitimized them off for adoption have still to either release them or open them to children and parents looking for each other.

There were a lot of old crimes in the baby business.

[customerserviceguy]

2. That was the subject of the film, "Philomena"

A deeply moving picture.