Irish woman ‘kidnapped’ from London as a pregnant teenager and sent home to a mother and baby institution recalls heartbreak after her son ‘didn’t want to know her’

ENGLAND
Daily Mail

January 29, 2021

By Latoya Gayle

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9190273/Woman-kidnapped-England-sent-baby-mother-institution-Ireland.html

– Terri Harrison from Dublin, was pregnant when she moved to London in 1972
– She was forced to return to Ireland after visit from Catholic Crusade & Rescue
– Her son Niall was given to an adoption agency at around five weeks old
– Terri, now 66, says son Niall, now 47, doesn’t want ‘anything to do with her

An Irish teen mother whose baby was forcibly taken from her at five weeks old has revealed her heartbreak after tracking down her son 30 years later, only to discover he wanted ‘nothing to with her’.

Terri Harrison, 66, from Dublin, moved to London when she fell pregnant aged 18, in 1972.

But the unmarried teen was ‘kidnapped’ and forced to return to Ireland and live in a mother and baby institution after she was visited by a priest and two nuns from the Catholic Crusade & Rescue while in hosp

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