‘A stain on Ireland’s conscience’: identification to begin of bodies buried at a children’s home.

Between 1925 and 1961, 796 children died at the St Mary’s mother and baby home, run by nuns from the Bon Secours order – but there were no burial records.

Babies and children were interred in the home’s grounds, many in a septic tank. A team of forensic investigators has been tasked with exhuming, analysing and identifying remains.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/a-stain-on-irelands-conscience-tuam-home-for-unmarried-mothers-gives-up-grimmest-of-buried-secrets

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