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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]hedgehog
(36,286 posts)the abuse of women and children in State sponsored and Church operated institutions in the 20th Century is old news and has been under official investigation by the Irish government since 2000.
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/
If you check out the link, you will note the vaccine trials are discussed.
Most (all?) of the perpetrators are dead. The Irish government and some Catholic organizations have paid some reparations. More reparations are being discussed.
The new scandal is that it recently came to light that children were buried in unmarked and inappropriate places. Proper birth and death certificates were filed at the time, so there was no secret about that. It was when a woman recently tried to trace the location of the graves using public records that she discovered that the children and infants at one location had been placed in a mass grave unmarked in any official record. There is some confusion, but there is an old concrete septic tank or cess pool buried on the site. It appears that after the tank was taken out of service, some bodies went into it or on top of it (to save the effort of digging?)