Warning may be triggering. Dead babies and children found buried at a mother and baby home.

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https://news.sky.com/story/opening-the-pit-dig-for-remains-of-800-infants-at-former-mother-and-baby-home-in-ireland-begins-13384111?fbclid=IwY2xjawK8u-lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgUPrwYkbmXCChH4Ui1Exg74o4R_g_IkR_YxKjPmCMAcOcuChqMHQe6pYD33_aem_Vnyw43j-5ZxaIm4IE5cTsA

How horrific 😢 I've heard of cruelty by nuns but this is off the scale.

I must have been living under a rock as hadn't heard of it before?

How old are you? I only knew about this happening with nuns after watching The Magdeline Sisters when I was about 13/14, I’m mid 30s now. I knew before that priests could be predators but naively didn’t think about nuns. I was only a young teen but society does try and hide the fact evil women indeed walk around us, especially those in the Catholic Church.

All this came about because of a quietly spoken Irish woman, Catherine Corless who was doing some amateur historical work at her kitchen table. She discovered hundreds of death certificates for babies and children at Tuam but no burial records. She has tirelessly campaigned to have the truth publicly acknowledged by the authorities and the children properly buried. The Guardian wrote a good piece about her:

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/mother-behind-galway-childrens-mass-grave-story

I mean this not the actual cruelty. This is huge.

I highly doubt this will go viral sadly. There’s been films that have won Oscar’s about the abuse led by those in the church. Yet people are still shocked that things like this happens.

The catholic church has not even begun to apologize enough for their cruelty in Ireland (cant speak about anywhere else).

I cannot comprehend women treating women like this. It’s incomprehensible- this was post WW2, my dear Nan remembers these times

Had a very good friend who volunteered with Mother Theresa. She felt the same - very strongly. My friend is an ordained CoE minister in the UK so not opposed to religious service at all.

Catherine Cordless is an incredible woman who has worked tirelessly on this.

There are other homes throughout Ireland and Scotland where similar is thought to have happened. All literally buried.

Orphanages in Spain too, where birth and death records were falsified to the extent that women don't know if their babies lived or died, children aren't sure who their parents are, many people are living with no knowledge that their family are biological strangers.

The Catholic Church is responsible for appalling wickedness.

Pope Benedict whatever number was in the Hilter youth and was drafted in the German army. I wonder how many people he murdered?

All evidence that the Catholic church has never given a damn about babies and children: its anti abortion/contraception position is nothing to do with sanctity of life blah blah, and has everything to do with keeping women under control. Throwing babies down a pit and then having the nerve to say they want to protect the unborn. I don't know how anyone can stomach belonging to that faith. It wasn't all that long ago...

Covering for paedophiles, Nazi Pope, it doesn't end.

My nan was sent to a Magdalena Laundry. She was a lucky one who managed to get out.
Although she always spoke about how a nun dropped her baby onto his head.

My aunt was a Nun - she has since died. She used to say that these mothers had no where else to go...they were told to leave their homes by their families. If the Nuns hadn't taken them in where would they go? It was a cruel time and the church had such a stranglehold on society.

Thanks for the info from the poster that talked about her mother's experience, other than that account of hers, is there any other reason of why this might have happened?
This occurance is so obviously morally wrong and goes against what Catholic nuns are supposed to uphold.
Very strange.

Have these people ever faced prosecution or legal action of any kind?

This is true too sadly. My grandma was kicked out of her lodgings when the landlords realised her stomach was growing, she couldn't go to her family she had nowhere else to go.

I’ve been following this sad story for years. Catherine Corless wrote a book about it. She had to fight the church and the Irish government for it to get to this stage.

There were girls and young women who escaped to England and were found by Catholic nuns and priests - literally hunted down and taken back to holy Catholic Ireland, where they were forcibly held in mother and baby homes and their babies sold to American Catholic families. There are babies and children listed as having died on the Tuam home registers who are alive in America now, with half-siblings in Ireland and England through DNA ancestry tests. Tuam wasn’t the only place this happened.

The Girl Behind the Gate, written by a psychiatrist, is a harrowing read.

This is terribly sad 💔

Often the fathers of the babies were their grandfathers, or uncles. There were cases where fathers to be tried to rescue girls from the mother and baby homes offering marriage, and were turned away. The “generous donations” from the American families were more important to the church.

It ought to go viral.

I questioned my nana, the only one left in the family who still goes to church all these things, her response was she can choose to do what she wants… she can, but has completely ignored all the things the Catholic Church have done.

This came out ten years ago and was the final straw for me. I stopped being a catholic and stopped taking my daughter, then about 15, to mass. I very quickly lost my faith, which was shaky anyway. The week this news broke, they had the bloody white rose collection for SPUC at mass.

It should I agree. People high in power have covered this up and protected people. I mean if the Catholic Church can cover things like this up, other “public sectors” will have too.