IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Jun 10, 2014 06:00 By Alana Fearon
Marian Kelly reveals how her son was forcibly taken from her just hours after birth and illegally given up for adoption at Cork mother and baby home
A heartbroken mum whose baby son was taken from her hours after birth, has revealed how heartless nuns told her: “What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t feel.”
The growing outrage over the treatment of children in State religious homes intensified yesterday as it emerged vaccines meant for cattle were tested on kids.
Marian Kelly was just 18 when she gave birth to her son Anthony in 1974 and was taken to the Bessborough mother-and-baby home in Co Cork.
Choking back tears, she opened up about how she was allowed to hold her baby for just a few short minutes before he was taken from her by the Sacred Heart sisters who ran the home.
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