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.

Yes I'm also glad I've turned my back on that horrible religion after being brainwashed into following it as a child.Thats not to say of course there are many nice people who are Catholic, however the religion is corrupt in so many ways.

I’m glad you said this. These pregnant women were thrown out by their families, these mother & baby homes were a product of society at the time, not just the Catholic Church at fault here

Precisely. This needs more coverage. A documentary. A film. It needs to be known.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/irish-church-and-state-apologise-for-callous-mother-and-baby-home-institutions

There are documentaries and films on YouTube.

The brave Sinead O’Connor talked about the abuse the Catholic Church was complicit in and looked how she was treated.

It’s not really that strange when you look at the treatment of women by the church across Ireland, and beyond. This is by no means the only home where nuns treated women this way.

I remember watching that film when I was young and being horrified. I think probably the reality was more horrifying based on this

Oh I didn’t know that.

Religion has a lot to answer for in it's various guises

A rep who visited my DH factory taking and reselling out of date plant. Went to a Magdalene Laundry to sell and install recommissioned washing machine from industrial laundries.

He told DH it was an absolutely chilling place that gave him the creeps so much misery.

There has been, I talked earlier about Spotlight which won two Oscar’s it was about the priests in Boston I think, raping young boys and the church covering it up, and the journalists that’s uncovered the story. Many films and documentaries about this from all over the world have been made sadly.

Often the parish priest would force families to give their daughters up. It happened in England as well. Abortion was decriminalised in England in 1967 and many Irish women took the ferry to England to get abortions.

Society was absolutely dominated and controlled by the church at this time and the church was completely responsible for the impact it had on society.

Controlling women and sexual abuse of children are the main ones and murder.

Song for a Raggy Boy - tragic film based on the abuse of boys by the Christian Brothers.

It was forced to apologise (in Ireland) in 2021.

I’ll have a look into that, thanks. It makes me so fucking angry that this is still happening and these monsters are getting away with it.

The Irish government implemented a redress scheme, also known as a compensation scheme, for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries. This scheme provides "ex gratia" payments, enhanced medical cards, and a right to a State Pension (Contributory). The payments are not dependent on proof of specific harm or abuse, and range from €11,500 for those who spent three months or less in a laundry to a maximum of €100,000 for those who spent ten years or more.

Key features of the redress scheme include:
"Ex Gratia" Payments: Lump sum payments are offered based on the length of time spent in the laundry.
Enhanced Medical Cards: Survivors are entitled to a "HAA card," similar to those provided to women infected with Hepatitis C through blood donations.
State Pension (Contributory): Survivors are entitled to a State Pension (Contributory).
Advocacy Support: If survivors are living in institutionalised settings (e.g., nursing homes), they are entitled to an advocate.
Dedicated Unit: A government unit provides support and advice to survivors.

The scheme aims to acknowledge the suffering endured by survivors and provide some form of redress for the injustices they faced in these workhouses.

There was a place outside Wallingford in Berkshire called the Fairmile hospital. Inside those walls were women considered mad. They'd been placed there as young women because they got pregnant, they were considered depraved so locked away. Their babies taken away. My mother said that they did become mad, institutionalised because of the terrible thing that had been done to them.

As kids we were scared to even cycle past deciding it was haunted.

The Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland, made a financial contribution of €12.97 million to a compensation scheme for survivors. This contribution was deemed a "meaningful" one by the negotiator, according to gov.ie. The Sisters also issued a formal apology for their role in the home, acknowledging the poor treatment of women and children, and the disrespectful burial of infants.

None have been prosecuted as far as I am aware.

A “religious calling” doesn’t make someone good.

Nazareth house in Aberdeen had same reputation.

Under the Mental Defectives Act girls and women could be institutionalised for decades, One reason was trying to abort babies and another was attempting suicide. Attempted suicide was a crime and a mortal sin. The suicide rate in Ireland is still high, because people are terrified of seeking help.

Many women, once they realised they would never escape, became nuns because they would be fed properly and treated slightly better than the “penitents” slaving away for scraps of food.