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The Journal
January 12, 2021
The first-hand testimony from those who were sent to mother and baby homes are included in today’s landmark report.
‘I was told by a nun: “God doesn’t want you… You’re dirt.”‘
“You could almost feel the tears in the walls.”
“Her mother called her a ‘prostitute and a whore’. Three of her uncles were priests and her parents were worried about how her pregnancy would affect them.”
THE ABOVE ARE just three of the hundreds of accounts from survivors in the long-awaited final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation.
The key recommendations from today’s report include a State apology, redress and that access to their birth information should be given to survivors of mother and baby homes.
The commission discovered that about 9,000 children died in the 18 homes under investigation: slightly over one in every seven children who were in the institutions.
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