Shocking Discovery: Nearly 800 Infant Bodies Feared Hidden in Septic Tank at Catholic Home for Unwed Mothers
“My mother worked heavily pregnant, cleaning floors, and a nun passing kicked my mother in the stomach. And when that place is opened, their dirty, ugly secret, it isn’t a secret anymore.
“It’s out there. And we need to know from that dirty, ugly place what happened there. So first and foremost, we want answers to that place.”
The Sisters of Bon Secours has issued an apology for how the home was run
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In 2021, a five-year-long inquiry found that 9,000 children lost their lives at 18 institutions for unmarried mothers and their babies between 1922 and 1998 in Ireland.
The Sisters of Bon Secours, which ran the Tuam home, issued an apology after the publication of their role in the tragedy.
They acknowledged that they had “failed to respect” the dignity of women and children at the home and that they had failed to offer them compassion.
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“We were part of the system in which they suffered hardship, loneliness, and terrible hurt,” the statement read.
“We acknowledge in particular that infants and children who d*ed at the Home were buried in a disrespectful and unacceptable way.
“For all that, we are deeply sorry. We offer our profound apologies to all the women and children of St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, to their families, and to the people of this country.”
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