Dienstag, 27. Mai 2014

Massengrab mit 800 Kinderleichen eines katholischen Heims unverheirateter Mütter entdeckt – IrishCentral.com


Massengrab mit 800 Babyleichen eines katholischen Heims unverheirateter Mütter entdeckt
- IrishCentral.com

Mass grave of up to 800 dead babies exposed in County Galway – IrishCentral.com

According to a report in the Irish Mail on Sunday, a mass grave has been located beside a former home for unmarried mothers and babies in County Galway. The grave is believed to contain the bodies of up to eight hundred babies, buried on the former grounds of the institution known locally as “The Home” in Tuam, north of Galway city, between 1925 and 1961

Run by the Bon Secours nuns, “The Home” housed unmarried mothers and their “illegitimate” children over those years.

Run by the Bon Secours nuns, “The Home” housed thousands of unmarried mothers and their “illegitimate” children over those years.  According to Irish Mail on Sunday the causes of death listed for “as many as 796 children” included “malnutrition, measles, convulsions, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis and pneumonia.”

The babies were usually buried without a coffin in a plot that had once housed “a water tank,” the report claims. No memorials were erected, the site was left unmarked and unmourned. The staggering mortality rate of “The Home” was apparently replicated elsewhere in Ireland.

The Sean Ross Mother and Baby Home, portrayed in the award winning film “Philomena” this year, opened in Roscrea, County Tipperary in 1930. In its first year of operation 60 babies died out of a total of 120, a fifty percent infant mortality rate, more than four times higher than in the general population at the time.   …..

via Mass grave of up to 800 dead babies exposed in County Galway – IrishCentral.com.

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