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StevieM

(10,559 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 06:29 PM Mar 2017

Experts find mass grave at ex-Catholic orphanage in Ireland [View all]

Source: Associated Press

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DUBLIN (AP) — A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a finding that offered the first conclusive proof following a historian's efforts to trace the fates of nearly 800 children who perished there.

The judge-led Mother and Baby Homes Commission said excavations since November at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, had found an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing "significant quantities of human remains."

The commission said DNA analysis of selected remains confirmed the ages of the dead ranged from 35 weeks to 3 years old and were buried chiefly in the 1950s, when the overcrowded facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unwed mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in 1961.

Friday's findings provided the first proof after decades of suspicions that the vast majority of children who died at the home had been interred on the site in unmarked graves. That was a common, but ill-documented practice at such Catholic-run facilities amid high child mortality rates in early 20th century Ireland.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-mass-grave-ex-catholic-orphanage-ireland-134424849.html

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I wonder if these were all natural deaths. smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #1
Only If You Consider Severe Neglect and Starvation "Natural" Leith Mar 2017 #4
That's sick. smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #12
Because they were born out of wedlock elmac Mar 2017 #9
They were innocent. smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #13
This Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Atrocities Leith Mar 2017 #2
The Baby Scoop Era was a disgraceful time, and Ireland may well have been worse than anywhere. StevieM Mar 2017 #5
So true, Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #6
Yes, Philomena. elleng Mar 2017 #7
This is how the real story of the Magdalene Laundries surfaced. Boomerproud Mar 2017 #3
The movie of the same name is heartbreaking Merlot Mar 2017 #16
And people still say the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world. Ligyron Mar 2017 #8
Is this definitive proof that Gymbo Mar 2017 #10
The babies were illegitimate and born from sin. keithbvadu2 Mar 2017 #11
Unwed mothers and their children-It wasn't stoning but was on the continuum. delisen Mar 2017 #14
Joni Mitchell's "Magdalene Laundries" frogmarch Mar 2017 #15
Perhaps Sinead O'Connor was justified dembotoz Mar 2017 #17
She was. nt msanthrope Mar 2017 #18
She was, completely The Sand Reckoner Mar 2017 #19
Come on, slavery and genocide by white U.S.A. was no picnic. hunter Mar 2017 #25
The catholic church The Sand Reckoner Mar 2017 #27
She was. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #20
K&R Solly Mack Mar 2017 #21
See my post right below yours. (eom) StevieM Mar 2017 #23
I'm so glad you added your thread link!! Solly Mack Mar 2017 #24
Here is a thread I started in 2014 about this matter. StevieM Mar 2017 #22
A lot of people need to go to jail for this HoneyBadger Mar 2017 #26
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