A Tralee woman, who’s a survivor of a mother and baby home, has called for all institutional lands to be fully investigated for unmarked burials before any land is rezoned, sold or developed. Catherine Coffey O’Brien went to Nazareth House orphanage and industrial school in Tralee which was run by the Mercy Order. She was […]
Nuns treated 11-year-old rape victims as if they were prostitutes : How schoolgirls were among 56,000 mothers sent to hellish Irish homes where 9,000 babies died and bodies were buried in shoeboxes - as survivors slam cop-out report
Some 56,000 unmarried mothers and 57,000 children went to hellish Mother and Baby homes in Ireland
Commission of Investigation found that 15 percent of the children died between 1922 and 1998
Report pointed the blame at families and fathers who turned their backs on the unmarried, pregnant women
The very high mortality rates were known to local and national authorities and were officially recorded
Many of the women were forced to seek refuge in the homes for fear of the their families and neighbours discovering their pregnancies