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PATRICK COUNIHAN @irishcentral June 15,2014
Details are emerging of the horrific stories behind some of the 796 deaths at the Tuam mother and baby home – where 18 children died of hunger.
12 of the 18 who starved were girls and there is a suspicion that some were mentally retarded.
One child wasn’t even given a name by the Bons Secours nuns who ran the Tuam home.
The youngest child to die was recorded as just ‘10 minutes old’ while the oldest was eight, a girl who had lived all her life in the home until measles killed her.
Bridget Agatha Kenny was two months old when she died as a result of marasmus, child malnutrition, on August 23, 1947. She is described as having been ‘mentally defective.’
She was one of 18 children whose cause of death was listed as child malnutrition or the official term “marasmus.”
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