I am reminded of the Irish nuns who discarded the worthless corpses of neglected babies into a sewage tank or unmarked mass graves.
So much for the sanctity of the child.
It only counted before birth.
The local people resisted calls for a memorial or garden of remembrance because they preferred the deaths to be forgotten
"Corless was said to have found 797 death records, with only one pointing towards a child who had been buried alongside their relatives in a Catholic cemetery.
The researcher therefore reportedly suspected that the other youngsters who had died had likely been placed in ‘unmarked graves on the orphanage grounds, including in a disused septic tank’, the publication stated.
In Corless’ research, she found that nearly 80% of the babies who died and were found in the mass grave were younger than one, while the most common causes of death were flu, measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis and whooping cough."
So much for the sanctity of the child.
It only counted before birth.
The local people resisted calls for a memorial or garden of remembrance because they preferred the deaths to be forgotten
"Corless was said to have found 797 death records, with only one pointing towards a child who had been buried alongside their relatives in a Catholic cemetery.
The researcher therefore reportedly suspected that the other youngsters who had died had likely been placed in ‘unmarked graves on the orphanage grounds, including in a disused septic tank’, the publication stated.
In Corless’ research, she found that nearly 80% of the babies who died and were found in the mass grave were younger than one, while the most common causes of death were flu, measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis and whooping cough."
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