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baby's coffin empty (trigger warning)

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Copperbeech33 · 01/09/2017 20:00

A mother who has spent 42 years arguing that the baby she was told to say goodbye to in the morgue was not hers, finally got an order to exhume the body for DNA testing, and the coffin was found to be empty.

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Copperbeech33 · 01/09/2017 20:01

I don't know the woman, the baby or the area, but poor woman. I could cry for her.

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00100001 · 01/09/2017 20:02

Source?

Dancinginthemidnight · 01/09/2017 20:02

My Dp was telling me about that story earlier. It's horrific isn't it. The poor woman and baby.

Passmethecrisps · 01/09/2017 20:02

It was on the BBC.

TheDuckSaysMoo · 01/09/2017 20:02

I saw this on the news tonight- horrific. She's been fighting since 1975 to discover this.

Passmethecrisps · 01/09/2017 20:03

[[Mother finds no body in her baby's coffin
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41122888 here ]]

Passmethecrisps · 01/09/2017 20:03

Gosh sorry for link fail

Passmethecrisps · 01/09/2017 20:04

Mother finds no body in her baby's coffin
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41122888

Rubyslippers7780 · 01/09/2017 20:05

BBC News: Mother finds no body in her baby's coffin
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Mother finds no body in her baby's coffin - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41122888

Anecdoche · 01/09/2017 20:05

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Copperbeech33 · 01/09/2017 20:05

it must be totally devastating. I wish there was something I could do to help

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exxrecluse · 01/09/2017 20:08

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NormaSmuff · 01/09/2017 20:09

that is rather harsh exxrecluse - is that comment necessary/?

troodiedoo · 01/09/2017 20:10

God that's horrific. Poor woman. Hope she gets the answers she needs.

DropZoneOne · 01/09/2017 20:17

Oh that's awful, the poor woman. Unfortunately she may never get answers 😔

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Copperbeech33 · 01/09/2017 20:38

This baby wasn't still born, he died at 7 days

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Copperbeech33 · 01/09/2017 20:39

42 years ago somebody closed that coffin knowing it was empty. That person might still be alive.

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Kissisforpirate · 01/09/2017 20:49

Stillborn babies and neonatal deaths used to be treated the same. That the baby should be taken away and never mentioned again. It was bloody awful.

indulgentberries · 01/09/2017 21:05

A woman that I used to know had a stillbirth at the same time that I was born. She was told that she couldn't see her baby and that the hospital would 'deal with him' She wanted to see him but was told that she wasn't allowed to. She told me the detail of the birth but I won't repeat it here.

Maryof1993 · 05/09/2017 22:20

Read the Alder Hey inquiry. All sorts used to go on. Some probably still goes on today.

GoingRogue · 05/09/2017 22:27

That poor poor woman Sad I hope she gets some answers.

purpleme12 · 07/09/2017 08:38

Wow this is awful I never even knew about them taking dead people's organs

GinYummy · 07/09/2017 08:43

Horrific Sad

DonkeyOaty · 07/09/2017 08:44

The baby's name is Gary. His mum, Lydia Reid, has been treated so awfully. Someone knows or knew that the coffin was empty. It is hideous.