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    Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam care home in Ireland

    Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam care home in Ireland

    A mass grave containing the remains of babies and children has been discovered at a former Catholic care home in Ireland where it has been alleged up to 800 died, government-appointed investigators said on Friday.

    Excavations at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, have uncovered an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing "significant quantities of human remains", the judge-led mother and baby homes commission said.

    The commission said analysis of selected remains revealed ages of the deceased ranged from 35 weeks to three years old. It found that the dead had been mostly buried in the 1950s, when the facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unmarried mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in ...


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    This might even be a better article.

    Mass grave of up to 800 children found underground at a former home for unmarried mothers and their babies in Ireland
    A "significant" quantity of human remains has been discovered in "underground chambers" at a former home for unmarried mothers and their babies in Ireland.

    A commission set up to investigate alleged abuse at religious-run so-called mother and baby homes has been carrying out an excavation at the former Catholic Church institution in Tuam, Co Galway.

    It said it was "shocked" by the discovery of "significant quantities of human remains" in at least 17 of 20 underground chambers being excavated in recent weeks.

    "A small number of remains were recovered for the purpose of analysis," the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes said.

    "These remains involved a number of individuals with age-at-death ranges from approximately 35 foetal weeks to 2-3 years.

    "Radiocarbon dating of the samples recovered suggest that the remains date from the time frame relevant to the operation of the mother and baby home."

    The Tuam home operated from 1925 to 1961.

    A number of the samples are likely to date from...


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    There was an article about this in the news last year, they denied any mass graves.

    The mystery of the missing remains of the Tuam babies

    ...The Bon Secours sisters say they will cooperate with the commission. But they say they know nothing of burials as they handed all their documents to Tuam Council in 1961. Their PR company, The Communications Centre, told a French documentary maker: "You'll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying "Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried.So?"

    But responding to a relative seeking information on a former resident, a sister wrote in 2012 that as that child had died he was "most likely" to have been buried in a "general grave" at the back of the home. Whatever a "general grave" is. Catherine Corless says of the nuns: "They were above the law then and they think they are still above the law now."

    https://www.theguardian.com/theobser...he-tuam-babies

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    Except they aren't denying it anymore.

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