Mass Grave of Dead Babies in Ireland Used as Guinea Pigs for Pharmaceutical Company

[Scurrilous]

86. More 'mass graves?' They've yet to uncover one.

"In 2014, there were widespread media reports that the bodies of 796 children and babies who died of malnutrition, neglect, and disease had been discovered in a former septic tank at the St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland. The child mortality at the home had allegedly averaged four a week, and (it was claimed) evidenced the discrimination and maltreatment that children of unwed mothers experienced while at the home.[4][5][6][7]

Eventually it was revealed that the original news reports misunderstood, if not actively misrepresented, the original story told by Catherine Corless, a local historian. Corless had obtained death records for 796 children — an average of 22.1 per year — who had died of various diseases at the home between 1925 and 1961, a time of high poverty and infant mortality in Ireland. However, she had not uncovered a mass grave or any other evidence of mistreatment. In 1975, two local boys had lifted a concrete slab and seen the skeletons of "maybe twenty" babies. While Corless speculates that the pit in which the skeletons lay may have been part of the sewage tank installed by the workhouse in 1840, eighty-five years before the Bon Secours sisters took it over, she told the Irish Times, "I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words. ... I just wanted those children to be remembered and for their names to go up on a plaque. That was why I did this project, and now it has taken [on] a life of its own."

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