9,000 children died in Irish homes for unwed mothers over nearly 80 years, report finds Yuliya Talmazan and Adela Suliman and Helena Skinner
Some 9,000 children died in Ireland s church-run homes for unwed mothers, a government report published on Tuesday has found. This is equivalent to 15 percent of all children who were born or lived in the 18 institutions investigated over nearly 80 years.
The nearly 3,000-page report describes the emotional and even physical abuse some of the 56,000 unmarried mothers from farmhands to domestic servants were subjected to in the so-called mother-and-baby homes. It appears that there was little kindness shown to them and this was particularly the case when they were giving birth, the report said.
Thousands of infants died in Irish homes for unmarried mothers and their offspring mostly run by the Catholic Church from the 1920s to the 1990s, an inquiry found on Tuesday, an "appalling" mortality rate that reflected brutal living conditions.
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Irish report finds appalling death rates in homes run for children born out of wedlock
12 Jan, 2021 08:50 PM
3 minutes to read Tuam Mother and Baby home survivor Theresa O Sullivan poses for a photograph as a vigil is held at the Tuam Mother and Baby home mass burial site on August 25, 2019. Photo / Getty Tuam Mother and Baby home survivor Theresa O Sullivan poses for a photograph as a vigil is held at the Tuam Mother and Baby home mass burial site on August 25, 2019. Photo / Getty
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Colin Freeman
Ireland confronted one of the darkest chapters of its past yesterday with the publication of a report detailing how 9000 children died in state-run homes for youngsters born out of wedlock.