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06/03/2017
The Bon Secours order that ran the Tuam mother and baby home has come under pressure to disband and to give up their assets to the State, writes Elaine Loughlin.
People Before Profit (PBP) have called on the nuns to make a complete and unreserved apology to the victims of the mother and baby home.
Speaking this morning AAA-PBP TD Bríd Smith claimed the Bon Secour nuns had been guilty of a “massive cover-up” of “criminal activity” which they had denied for many years.
Ms Smith was joined by Deirdre Wadding, a former resident of Bessboro mother and baby home in Cork.
Ms Wadding said the revelations that more than 700 babies had been buried in pits in the Co Galway home, had shocked her but proved that “church and State colluded from the very foundation of this State to oppress women. Women and children have been brutalised by those twin forces for decades now.
“For me it has been a very wobbly few days, to be personal about it, as I read about Tuam it certainly stirred up my own experiences,” said Ms Wadding who was sent to Bessboro aged 19 in 1981.
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