IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY JAMES FOGARTY
4 MAR 2017
Infants and children that died in the Tuam Mother and Baby horror home were thrown out “like garbage”, a survivor of the institution told the Sunday Mirror.
JP Rodgers was born in the home in 1947 and at just one years old he was separated from his mother Bridie, who was sent to the Magdalene Laundry in Galway city.
He said : “There were hundreds of children at the home. To my eyes as a little child, it was like a rabid colony.
“Everyone was suffering from something. I would spend hours standing on my own in the middle of that institution because I was terrified, because I didn’t know who to trust.
And I was sick for months and months on end. But I survived that and I recovered.”
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