US EditionDig for remains of 800 infants at former 'mother and baby home' in Ireland begins
- Officials in Ireland began excavating the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home to identify the remains of 800 infants and young children who died there.
- Research by local historian Catherine Corless suggested that 796 babies and young children were buried in a sewage system at the home.
- In 2021, Irish Premier Micheal Martin apologized for the treatment of women and children in mother and baby homes across Ireland.
- Daniel MacSweeney, who leads the ODAIT, called the excavation 'unique and incredibly complex.
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The young mothers experienced bare horror: their newborns were disposed of like garbage. Years after the first finds on the site of a torn down mother-child home is dug again in Ireland.
Workers have discovered very old bones on a site in the North. The scientific police have been called to analyze these remains whose origin and era remain to be determined.
Nearly 800 children's bodies are believed to have been buried in underground chambers beneath a home for unwed mothers in Tuam, Ireland. Now the work of locating the bodies and identifying them begins. "Their dirty, nasty secret is no longer a secret," Annette McKay, whose sister is believed to be buried at the site, told Sky News.
Officials in Ireland to exhume remains of hundreds of babies found at unwed mothers’ home
Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of around 800 infants and young children who died there.
Work began Monday in Tuam, Ireland, to find and identify the remains of nearly 800 babies buried at a local home for mothers and children. Homes run by religious orders like this one were where women went to give birth instead of going to hospitals, and their babies were left there like in an orphanage. But an investigation has found that the women were abused and a high number of their babies died there.
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