US EditionExcavation of child mass grave at church-run home begins in Ireland
TUAM, COUNTY GALWAY, IRELAND, JUL 13 – Excavation aims to identify remains of 796 children at Tuam home, with DNA samples from 80 relatives aiding forensic investigations, highlighting historical neglect and state complicity.
- The excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway began on Monday.
- Investigators found 'significant quantities of human remains' at the site in 2017, indicating the graves' existence.
- About 80 people have given DNA samples to potentially recover their relatives' bodies from the grave.
- A six-year inquiry revealed that 56,000 unmarried women and 57,000 children were in 18 similar homes over a 76-year period.
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(OSV News) — A full excavation began July 14 at a site near a former mother-and-baby home in the west of Ireland, believed to be the final resting place of up to 800 infants. The infants died in the home — run on behalf of the Irish government by the Sisters of Bon Secours — during a period from 1925 to 1961. St Mary’s in Tuam, Irish County Galway, had been established along with a network of other such institutions at the request of the new gov…
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