IRELAND
Irish Independent
Alan O’Keeffe
March 6 2017
Dublin woman Anna Corrigan said she does not believe that both of her baby brothers born in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home actually died there.
She believes her brother William may have been adopted illegally in the US as no death certificate was issued for him, she said.
A death certificate was issued for her oldest brother, John. Inspectors who visited the institution in the 1940s stated he was in an “emaciated” condition. Later, when his death was listed, a death certificate stated measles as a cause of death.
If the bodies of one or two of her brothers are identified with DNA tests, she wants the remains to be given to her for a family burial. “The Garda forensic team should have been sent to the site a long time ago. I want to give a sample of my DNA to help the investigation,” she said.
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