800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

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Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church's troubled past.

Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were deposited in a grave near a Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers during the 35 years it operated from 1925 to 1961.

Historian Catherine Corless, who made the discovery, says her study of death records for the St Mary's home in Tuam in County Galway suggests that a former septic tank near the home was a mass grave.

The septic tank, full to the brim with bones, was discovered in 1975 by locals when concrete slabs covering the tank broke up.

Until now, locals believed the bones mainly stemmed from the Great Irish famine of the 1840s when hundreds of thousands perished.

St Mary's, run by the Bons Secours Sisters, was one of several such 'mother and baby' homes in early 20th century Ireland.

Thousands of unmarried pregnant women -- labelled at the time as 'fallen women' -- were sent to the homes to have their babies.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/800-babies-buried-septic-tank-irish-home-unmarried-133858558.html#XLHARfb

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FFS what a cover-up, what lessons we have ever learn from the past?

[darrenhyland]

and fifty years from now more cover ups from this era will be discovered......................Ireland is a country of whisperers and whingers, nobody does anything about anything until it is too late.

[metercar]

this news is as distressing to a child dying by single mother very sad ... some of these kids probably would be a genius.

[Kalipo]

FFS what a cover-up, what lessons we have ever learn from the past?

That Catholicism, Judaism and Islam and all the other religions are all the same.. Dirty perverted, murdering, pedophile scumbags