IRELAND
Evening Echo
A woman has revealed how her baby boy “was just left to die” days after he was born in a mother-and-baby home in Co. Cork in 1961.
Bridget, who is in her 70s and lives in England, rang RTE Radio One’s Liveline today to tell of how her son William was born in Bessborough, Cork, but died after only six weeks.
She described how her baby fell ill after only three days in the institution, but was only brought to hospital nearly three weeks later despite Bessborough knowing that her baby “was desperately ill”.
She said she believes her baby would have survived if he received the medical attention he needed at the time.
She also revealed how nuns said her baby “would be easier to sell” because he was a boy, and they insisted on giving him a Catholic name, rather than the name she wanted, for the same reason.
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