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She was a guinea pig in an Irish institution. Now she s hoping for justice. Elizabeth Chuck and Helena Skinner © Provided by NBC News Mari Steed with her birth mother, Josephine Bassett, in 2010. (Courtesy Mari Steed) Four decades after she left the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork, Ireland, Mari Steed made a horrifying discovery. While there as an infant, she had been part of what she calls a “highly unethical” vaccine trial. Starting at 5 months old, Steed was vaccinated at least three times with an experimental shot to prevent diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio, her medical records, which she shared with NBC News, revealed. Steed, now 60, later learned the vaccine was administered without the knowledge of her birth mother, with whom she lived for the first 18 months of her life at Bessborough.

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