IRELAND
Evening Echo
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014
A CORK MAN born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home is hoping the imminent inquiry will give him the answers he has been waiting five decades for.
Christopher Kirwan, a 53-year-old from Glanmire, was born in the Bessborough home in November 1960 and was adopted the following June.
Christopher, who attended last night’s vigil outside the Dáil for the 796 babies who died at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, says he has eight unexplained marks on his body.
Six are on his arms and two are on one of his legs.
Another two resulted from the BCG and smallpox vaccinations — but he doesn’t know what caused the others saying: “I want answers about why I am so badly scarred.”
He believes the unexplained marks are the result of vaccine trials which were carried out on some babies born at Bessborough.
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