IRELAND
Westmeath Examiner
The nuns who ran the mother and baby home in Castlepollard should be “locked up” for their role in the systemic mistreatment of thousands of women and their children, a former resident has said.
In an interview with the Westmeath Examiner yesterday, Paul Redmond, who was born at the mother and baby home in Castlepollard and is the chairperson of the Coalition of the Mother and Baby Home Survivors, said that although he knows that it won’t happen, he would “love” to see the nuns who ran the mother and baby homes imprisoned for the remainder of their years.
“I would love to see the guards kick in the doors of the convents and see them brought out in their wheelchairs in chains,” he said.
“I was one of three or four people who went to the gardaí about the high mortality rates in the homes, but there is nothing the gardaí can do.
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