Investigators at Ireland’s notorious mother and baby house of horrors have made a grim find, excavating what they now confirm to be part of a long-suspected burial ground where up to 800 babies are feared to lie. The excavation team, which started its painstaking work in July, revealed that it has uncovered compelling evidence ofContinue reading “It’s Believed That 800 Corpses May Be Buried At An Irish Mother And Baby Home Site”
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Search For Bodies Of Almost 800 Infants Begins At ‘Mother And Baby’ Home
Expectant women were sent to the Bon Secours ‘mother and baby home’ in Galway between 1925 and 1961. Their illegitimate children were said to be ‘children of sin’, and as such treated with a lack of respect in death, according to the work of historians. Catherine Corless, whose work uncovered what allegedly happened at theContinue reading “Search For Bodies Of Almost 800 Infants Begins At ‘Mother And Baby’ Home”