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In reply to the discussion: Mass Grave of Dead Babies in Ireland Used as Guinea Pigs for Pharmaceutical Company [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Most countries (USA too) like the UK had their 'homes' for different groups of people, usually the lower classes. That home it was mentioned the children were set apart 'segregated' in schools & shunned by society in general.
Pictures show painfully thin, sallow children and records prove those 'homes' were a hotbed of diseases, neglect, abuse. The records will never match the actual death rate. The 800 dead thrown out like garbage is probably just a guess and much, much higher.
'The Church' has a lot to atone for as do most all societies, all countries exterminated, ignored/abused their personal second/third class people.
Currently in the USA we have hundreds of children held in limbo as undocumented persons. Held in those 'for profit' detention centers that feed off the $160 per day federal money they get to 'house' each person. Almost 100 reports of abuse in the past couple months. Unreported? who knows how many. The 'for profit' prisons are another major, major human rights blight on the USA.
These living children need help today from Pope Francis and all the South American countries and Congress needs to help too.
Most of these children have family/parents here in the USA to afraid to speak-up because of fears of deportation to countries they don't even know.
They can mourn the dead, count the bodies later. That pit of dead was discovered almost 20 years ago.