Tuam Babies’ Investigation Likened to Nazi War Crimes Trials

Connacht Tribune
March 10, 2017

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Some of the children at 'The Home' in Tuam, from the Connacht Tribune in June 1924.

The Tuam babies’ investigation has been likened to the Nazi war crimes trials of the 1940s.

Junior Minister John Halligan this afternoon released a statement, in which he says old age should not diminish accountability in the Tuam mother and baby home scandal.

He’s calling on Gardai to question any surviving Bon Secours nuns who ever worked at the home, to establish whether a criminal investigation is warranted.

Minister Halligan says the Tuam discovery is ‘potentially the tip of an iceberg’.

He says as was the case with the Nazi war crimes trials, if an individual has been an accessory to a crime then they should be held accountable, regardless of how many years have passed

The child mortality rate at a similar home in Bessborough in 1943 was approaching 70% – which Minister Halligan says is similar to some concentration camps.