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Terri Harrison, 66, from Dublin, moved to London when she fell pregnant aged 18, in 1972.
But the unmarried teen was kidnapped and forced to return to Ireland and live in a mother and baby institution after she was visited by a priest and two nuns from the Catholic Crusade & Rescue while in hospital.
After giving birth, her son Niall was taken away to give to an adoption agency at around five-weeks-old, against Terri s will.
Speaking to Irish magazine Evoke, she revealed that a social worker was able to track down Niall when he was around age 30, however he didn t want to meet her saying: She rang and told me about him, what he was like but he didn’t want to know anything about me and that is his decision.
In the early 1970s, a young Irish woman arrived home to find three people dressed in black standing in the kitchen. The woman, who was living with her aunt in London at the time, had confided in her aunt that she was pregnant.