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Mothers call for genocide trial over baby bodies

By Catherine Sanz
Times
March 6, 2017

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/mothers-call-for-genocide-trial-over-baby-bodies-v5mllglgm

Many who lived in homes for “fallen women” said that they had been forced to give up their babies for adoption

A group of women who were former residents of homes for unmarried mothers have written to the attorney-general seeking genocide prosecutions against the religious orders that ran the centres.

They believe that, due to their status as single mothers, the state-sanctioned and mostly religious-run homes violated genocide laws by causing them to suffer serious bodily and mental harm through mass internment and the forcible removal of their children.

The 63 members of Irish First Mothers, who range in age from early 40s to late 70s, were residents in a number of mother and baby homes across Ireland including Bessborough in Co Cork, The Good Shepherd in Co Meath and St Patrick’s in Dublin.

Most of the women allege that they were pressured or forced into giving their babies up for adoption and three infants born to the women died while in the homes.

They were prompted to write the letter after the recent discovery of a significant number of infant remains were found inside sewage chambers on the site of a former home in Tuam, Co Galway.




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