Cultures across the world so no matter how you take it out just to bring you the news and current affairs. Down to 0. 6 years ago an island secret mass grave for babies was discovered near a home for unmarried pregnant women an institution run by Roman Catholic nuns to find set off a scandal that has raised deeply disturbing questions about the relationship between the irish state and the Catholic Church and the distressing sight of thousands of children who died in their care in this 2nd part of our investigation correspondent lawrence me it feels shocking new evidence that the house and way some of those babies with every. 6 years ago it became clear that the bodies of hundreds of babies have been disposed of in an old sewage tank in the grounds of a catholic home for unmarried mothers in choom island. In the 1st part of our investigation we looked at the cruel and abusive treatment by church and state of young women accused of the mortal sin of pregnancy outside marriage. In this 2nd pass we investigate the fate of the babies the women were trapped they were societys thrown away. Why would you trade a child any better. We reveal the sheer scale of the scandal how foundations of babies died and why families and survivors feel so betrayed by the authorities for 18 torn in the system i guess church and state are going to keep the church from coming helps. And we present shocking distressing new evidence about how and where the religious orders disposed of the bodies. They were often in rather grand buildings legacies of the British Colonial aristocracy. But it is difficult to imagine the harshest start in life than to be born into one of violence cruelly misnamed mother and baby homes. Because behind the carefully cultivated a major of pious tranquility lets a very different reality as a medical officer dr james dean who visited best grim other and baby home in 1947 lazar recalled it was a beautiful institution and seemed to be well run. Spotlessly clean. But when he pulled the pristine bedding back from the babies every baby had some puerile into infection of the skin and all had green diarrhoea carefully covered. Despite the resistance of local Church Leaders talk to dini did get improvements in that home but the problems continued elsewhere those high buildings for the children slept Catherine Colas the local historian who 6 years ago told the world about the babies in the sewage tank in choom grew up in the town i remember. Home baby steps because. Its been silent and carefully. Just kind of came mr. Toombs mother and baby home was run by the bone sekula sisters someone who knew only too well what went on behind those dog walls was Julia Devaney she lived there from 1926 when she was just 8 until it closed in 1961 and then recorded her experiences. The. Whole lot. Of hot. Chocolate. There wasnt any 1st the 1st 1st or well paid for the last children. Tensioning for head per child per mother back and. The young women were expected to stay on for a year or more after the baby was born laboring unpaid for the nuns in penance for their sin. The women were literally slave labor so if youre not paying. Out of the meantime the government or pay for every woman and every child and indeed sometimes paying more than they should this confidential memo reveals the best bernanke would sometimes continue to claim government payments from others that actually discharged years before. And thats was in the only money spent a while poor mothers paid penance in unpaid labor rich girls could buy their way out for a 5000. 00 euros in sedates money. But even rich girls could not avoid the trauma of having their baby taken from them. The nuns soon saw another potential source of income that. Adoptions. The babies were just in order. Thats all we were to church taught right this is a baby making factory i can make money i dont. Agree to north. Teresa collins was born ensure also be run by the sisters of the sacred hearts under its then mother superior sister hildegarde mcnulty. The nun very calming. The way they put it into a sisterhood of authority pushed at a donation was met. But did donation 100 pounds. You were traded yeoman like was traded. And so Shannon Airport is just 60 miles west of Shannon Ross Abbey found itself at the center of an International Trade in traffics babies mainly to the families of returning american servicemen. To church realized that babies are the could be sold to america a charity quite babies. In order to put the babies up for adoption the nuns would pressurize mothers into signing away their rights and occasionally it seems they also resort to forgery. I was talking to one particular mother who put next she signed her name and she could do was put down the next and when she went to look at her. For her daughter in the adoption fight the signature was signed her name but now her thinking of her so we know that document but if you wanted to adopt a child there was one criteria you needed to satisfy above all. The Catholic Church was afraid the catholic babies would be adopted by problems that koppels our souls will be lost to the Catholic Church and. The true figure of traffics babies may never be known. To this day hundreds of those children may have no idea they are adopt it. Sister hildegarde reportedly later admits hes adoptions became shawn roll savvis greatest source of income. One of those babies was collene anderson although in her case kill the god of the personal interest. My birth mom was 14 and she was right so she was sent to Sean Ross Abbey where she had me. Sister hell the car was in charge of all the adoptions. And she sent me to her niece in the states. I didnt realize till i got older that my adoptive mom must gets a frantic. And there was a lot a lot of the physical and mental abuse so i ended up in hospital few times for with head injuries. Her just pushed me against a wall or i come to school sometimes bleeding. But i survived the hand i wanted to be the opposite of how my optimism was i never married never had kids i was always afraid that i would be like her. Those kids who escaped adoption faced an equally bleak future some were forced to douse often ins would be use of situations many others was sent to Industrial Schools notoriously brutal places run by religious orders. That out as the field is that. Yeah even if Morris Oconnell was incarcerated in an Industrial School in truly along with his step brother kevin nobody really saw. Before. The dogs talked to go to take the doctor off and he would 3 or 4 big brother he was read through all we was we would be. There was one day i was a priest came to visit. But he sexually molested me when i was about 7 years of age. Most kids stayed as Industrial School until the age of 16 when they were kicked out brutalized and ill equipped the independent living. Girls were particularly vulnerable a lot of these young gardeners protect their fans just. Out of a sudden they found out or pregnant they barely got a whiff of a little social skill a bucket of water a baby help them cut tribes for 2 of article and laundry us published. In magdalene laundries run by nuns socalled fall and women were subjected to abusive regimes of forced labor often for years so. Thats why they were a mind of their son that was a nice cover up us in a calendar to repent while they were getting the free labor of interest. A few people did escape from this Conveyor Belt of abuse but it wasnt easy. In 19097 months pregnant Catherine Cofield brian ran away from best for a mother and baby whom she saved her son educated herself to University Degree and became a rights activist. Telling god my children had nothing to do with this system we call it the system and thats what it was because the charge and fear are odd to watch. But the most shocking consequence of that church and state system was the face of those who didnt escape it or survive its. Between 4 and 6000 babies died in islands mother and baby homes from diseases that reads like a litany of neglect. Why does a baby where people are being paid money to die of malnutrition. And on to do the babies were dying at the rate of 20 to 40 percent a year year after year i did it nothing about osha. In 2015 the government set up a commission of investigation into the whole mother and baby home scandal. For the relatives the idea that the remains of thousands of children scattered around shouldnt really be a matter for a Civil Commission of inquiry its all it should be something for these people the police. Is always a commission theres always a report what theres always a forum but when. The commission which has produced several interim reports was supposed to submit its final reports and recommendations in 2018 the families and survivors are still waiting. I do not want any more excuses i do not want any more white washing. Above all they want to know where these babies are so they can be identified grieved over and finally and respectfully laid to rest. When i started here in the mid eightys Michael Donovan was working as a gardener in the Sean Ross Abbey mother and baby home when he was asked by the nuns to help landscape an overgrown area of scrub it was just dark the way briars. Were told to come down here and. The factor that fall down this way and it turned over to scott and i just noticed the office was tossed off. That area where michael found the bones is now a carefully tended child Burial Ground known as an angels plots. But that plant is not all it seems. 9 years ago the nuns admitted to the 269 babies that died in Charlotte Russe a number that could plausibly be buried in these plots. But it is now clear that over a 1000 babies died here. So where all of. This photograph was taken in 1974 not long after the nuns close to home but there is no obvious sign of the angels plots which the nuns now claim was a consecrated graveyard where they buried babies in individual coffins however weve established that the area above this hedge which takes up the top 3rd of the nuns claimed angels plot actually contains the pits used by the nuns for the mass burial of unbaptized babies and still belongs. Tony mcguire is an archaeologist an anthropologist who specializes in the location next invasion of unmarked graves and im no just itching to get. It. So with that area unavailable for the files and burials it is even clear of the remaining area cannot speak of the true extent of the graveyards. The most probable scenario is that in reality it extends i thats where faintly visible part way here on the 974 picture or right up to the Walled Garden here. And that is a cause of deep concern because of Something Else we have discovered. This plan produced by a Tipperary Town council was submitted to the commission a copy has found its way to us. It describes a sewage pipe installed in the late ninetys which runs from an inspection hatch here directly beside the current angels plots to an inspection hatch here and beyond. But as weve established that plan is wrong in several important respects. The inspection hatches are actually here and here and between them in the projects apparently agreed between the nuns and the council a sewage system has been constructed in land which may well contain child burials. Our investigation suggests that the system includes a settlement tank. An overflow pipe here and a sewage outlet pipe cutting through the probable Burial Grounds and then teeing into another time constructed within the current angels plots. Disturbingly around the same time the sewage system was installed yet small damage was done to the potential Burial Grounds when they were planted with fast growing conifers. What they have not. Over the area where the pipe the left. The roots of the snake damage the pipes. It stuck a sink any barrier. Around us well. In early 2019 the commission ordered the Ground Penetrating radar survey of the plots followed by test excavations. Theyre still not said what they found but we can reveal the survey confirmed the existence of a tank within the angels plots. Are we had to allow this level of just the question. Baby died. Did he really we just sucks the little. We are not even going to. Like Sean Ross Abbey best spring mother and baby home in cork was run by the sisters of the sacred hearts of jesus and mary whose convent still overlooks the home. The home closed in the late ninetys but that can also raise its awful paused. As they scan Financial HealthService Briefing notes from 1934 to 19531 quarter of all babies died in their 1st 12 months of life. Over 900 babies died here but only 64 graves are recorded and families a desperate to know where the rest of buried. The dont feel to point to the area that we called the angel of a Little Family farkle or area bring a woman along here go there know the ground there know your baby for them. And so this tiny plots became the focus for the grief of survivors and relatives. Faced with what they call the angel fox the area that they say that the 900 babies are just just enough yeah. We know theyre not trying to hear. The numbers now suggest they come from member where they buried them. Acclaim described by the commission as very difficult to understand. I dont believe for one second they dont know where the Burial Grounds are and i dont believe for one second that they dont how far right are the 5 and a half and in both cases. The commission of knowledge that although children could be buried in the grounds they could refute all the available maps all available aerial images and have conducted site surveys they could find new physical or documentary evidence of possible unrecorded burial arrangements. But the commission missed a vital piece of evidence. They smile. It is a hands on a tape to plan prepared by an official council during the site visit in 1949 that morning them to a group found in the archives of the Irish Ordnance survey. And it specifically describes an area along the side of a wooded path leading from the main house towards the fully as a childrens Burial Ground. But could unmarked graves still be physical decades after they would dug ok never settle. You listen to ground it never fills back in exactly the way it was. So when you get what. I saw my eyes. Also create an. Educational defends you can see the impressions in the ground i play in a. The greatest gender farmable. We are in the role of an aerial or thundering on how ground. Am i often on the basis for. Oh ok no wait until i heard. We sent the drone up to get a better view. We could see a couple of old fetch to build beds. But Something Else as well. Smaller rectangular patches. We took our images to tony. They are regular a rose. By. Name with much to find for an individual. Given the gene have a potential for burial here there are definite areas and just significantly of interest. To even know prominent features like. If it was just. In that small area alone we can discern perhaps a couple of dozen potential grapes. So this whole area is vitally important to the families and to the commission. But its also of course a potential crime scene. Which makes what we see next all the more disturbing. Someone hes digging up the area and walking towards the suspected graves. 50 k. Concerning because no one should be taking around her but otoh unlike our colophon final. Question what happened in the playoffs with anger. Are you worried about i think if there is no suggestion the workman has any idea of the significance of the sites but he agrees to stop walk and we inform the Center Management of the areas in pools and its just fine on all the old area on the question the commission told us it was well aware of all the matters we mentioned and added this as it was conducting a statutory investigation it does not comment. On the evidence available. But this story is very far from over. Foundations of survivors and bereaved families are still waiting for the truth still waiting to find their dead and still waiting for someone to be called to account. The chuch and the irish states have a lot of questions to answer. You cant be a Healthy Society if youre not willing to look out what you did to thousands and thousands of your own citizens. Theres a lot of guilt on my end and i get i think its just a little child inside. The adult knows that no it wasnt my fault but the little child that either never grew up or never healed doesnt know that. The charge and fear did not bank and any of us. And speaking about it a bank under shame but weve not me shamed about. Well still religious orders weve named in this film for response to the issues weve raised they declined to be interviewed the sisters of the sacred hearts said they were cooperating fully with the commission of investigation in a statement they added we provided the service for these women we did not create zante which contributed to such exclusion and pain the sisters of bonsa cooler said only that they continued to cooperate with the commission and could not comment ahead of its final report we also asked to pereira county council for a response to the issues weve raised in relation to the angels plot and Sean Ross Abbey it told us that the plan its a message the commission was only an indicative drawing and was not strong to scale the council did not address all questions about the location of the burial plot but did say their investigation had determined no environmental issues. 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