Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway's mass graves

he bodies of 796 children, between the ages of two days and nine years old, have been found in a disused sewage tank in Tuam, County Galway. They died between 1925 and 1961 in a mother and baby home under the care of the Bon Secours nuns.

Locals have known about the grave since 1975, when two little boys, playing, broke apart the concrete slab covering it and discovered a tomb filled with small skeletons. A parish priest said prayers at the site, and it was sealed once more, the number of bodies below unknown, their names forgotten.

The Tuam historian Catherine Corless discovered the extent of the mass grave when she requested records of children's deaths in the home. The registrar in Galway gave her almost 800. Shocked, she checked 100 of these against graveyard burials, and found only one little boy who had been returned to a family plot. The vast majority of the children's remains, it seemed, were in the septic tank. Corless and a committee have been working tirelessly to raise money for a memorial that includes a plaque bearing each child's name.

For those of you unfamiliar with how, until the 1990s, Ireland dealt with unmarried mothers and their children, here it is: the women were incarcerated in state-funded, church-run institutions called mother and baby homes or Magdalene asylums, where they worked to atone for their sins. Their children were taken from them.

More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/04/children-galway-mass-graves-ireland-catholic-church

that movie recently told about this shit Those nuns were sadists.

i have to presume they were a fixture in most good sized irish cities.
and prolly no small number of them in america, i'd venture, where the church was left to its own devices.
there was a place called "the smith home" in my hometown. big old building with a wrought iron fence. we thought of it as an orphan's home, but there was little sign of kids running around. not none, but eery, even to us little kids who could see things didnt add up.
now i am really curious.

inflicted by not only the catholic church, but other churches and "charitable organizations". Not to mention unscrupulous individuals who would steal children in the night sometimes even killing the mothers.

It is time for the churches to make reparations for these crimes against humanity.


Stop closed adoptions now and release all of the information


Candles for the victims

son who was given (for a price to the order of nuns) to an affluent family when PHilomena was sent to a Magdalen home in the early 60s. I didn't realize how emotionally devastating that movie would be. I highly recommend it, though...

If there are names, then they are individuals. I'd happily contribute some funds to an existing program that provides for mothers and infants in the name of one of those little ones.