9,000 children died in Ireland's Catholic homes for 'illegitimate' infants, report finds

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Some 9000 children died in Ireland's 'mother and baby homes', where unmarried mothers were routinely separated from their infant offspring, according to an official report.

"We had a completely warped attitude to sexuality and intimacy, and young mothers and their sons and daughters were forced to pay a terrible price for that dysfunction," he added.

It also highlighted a total of seven unethical vaccine trials on children in the institutions between 1934 and 1973. A file photo of a handwritten message painted on the site of a mass grave near the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.The group said the report "absolved both the Church and state of any systemic responsibility for what it admits is the effective incarceration of pregnant mothers".

It said"some of this cohort of women are of the opinion that their consent was not full, free and informed."

 

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