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
Around eighty Kildare mothers stayed at Dunboyne mother and baby home says report
Commission says it received few complaints abut Meath home which is now a hotel
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Almost eighty of the 3,156 mothers who were resident at some stage in a mother and baby home at Dunboyne Castle in Meath gave Kildare addresses, according to a report on the home in the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes.
The report, which focuses a lot on the financial discussions between the order which ran the home and Meath County Council (MCC) said MCC had a major role in the running and financing of the home which was open from 1955 to 1991.
by Angus Macfarlane
WNP member Angus Macfarlane sent us this wonderful summary of the land on the east edge of the OMI, home of a number of civic institutions. In the future we hope to have more from Angus on the fascinating Industrial School, a place where even three-year-olds were sent to be rehabilitated. Engraving of the Industrial School in the 1880s. , circa 1880 - by Van Vleck and Keith
The year 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the city s first development in the OMI. In 1854, San Francisco purchased 100 acres for $10,000 from John Horner at the intersection of the San Jose Road and the Ocean House Road (the precursors of today s San Jose Avenue and Ocean Avenue) for the construction of the House of Refuge an institution to deal with neglected, abandoned, and delinquent children under the age of 16. The footprint of that 100 acres still exists on today s maps as Balboa Park and City College of San Francisco.