US Edition'Mass grave' excavation to finally start at Irish mother and baby home
- An Irish Commission of Investigation was prompted by the discovery of an unmarked mass burial site related to mother-and-baby homes.
- The commission concluded that 9,000 children had died in the homes across Ireland.
- There are no burial records or memorials for the children, emphasizing their perceived illegitimacy.
- There are no burial records or markers for the children, indicating neglect of their lives.
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Opening 'the pit': Dig for remains of 800 infants at former 'mother and baby home' in Ireland begins
The remains of almost 800 babies and children are believed to be buried under a former 'mother and baby home' in Tuam, with many believed to have been dumped into a sewage tank that was dubbed "the pit".
Remains of 796 babies and toddlers at Tuam Mother & Baby home to be exhumed
THE remains of nearly 800 babies and toddlers will be exhumed at the notorious Mother and Baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, from tomorrow. Excavation work will start this morning at the site of the former institution run by the Bon Secours order of nurses. Historian Catherine Corless said she was ‘so relieved’ the excavation was finally under wayAFP Thousands of umarried mothers were incarcerated at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, in Tuamgetty AFPM…
In 2014, Catherine Corless revealed that 796 children were secretly buried in a common group in Ireland. These children, born outside of marriage, were separated from their mothers and placed on a religious path. The woman has fought for ten years to reveal this scandal, and now, after a better decade, are about to begin the first outbreaks, reports AFP.
11 years after the first revelations, 796 babies died in a religious home will be exhumed in Ireland. It took a first law in 2022 for this to become possible.
In 2014, historian Catherine Corless revealed that 796 children had been buried anonymously on the site of an old house for single mothers, run by nuns in Ireland. Eleven years later, the first exhumations are expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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