IRELAND
Christian Post
Horror House: Skeletons of 800 Babies Found in Mass Septic Tank Grave Near Former Home of Unwed Mothers in Ireland
BY LEONARDO BLAIR , CP REPORTER
June 3, 2014
An old septic tank located next to a former home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns in Ireland from 1925 to 1961, was revealed this week to be a massive grave containing the skeletons of nearly 800 infants and children.
The Home, as the former refuge for “fallen women” is known, was run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam, according to The Washington Post. The mothers, according to that report, would pay penance for their shame with indentured labor then leave but many of their children never left with them.
An Irish Central report revealed that the children were secretly buried “without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground.”
The revelation was made by Catherine Corless, a local historian and genealogist who went to Catholic school with some of the children from the home as a child.
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