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9,000 children died in Ireland's brutal homes for unmarried mothers and babies run by the Catholic Church in the 20th century, damning report reveals

By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:57 EST, 12 January 2021

Nine thousand children died in Ireland's brutal homes for unmarried mothers and babies run by the Catholic Church in the 20th century, a damning report has revealed.

In total, 15 percent of the 57,000 children at the 18 institutions investigated by the Mother and Baby Home Commission died between 1922 and 1998.

The report published yesterday said the homes 'provided refuge' for the mothers when they had nowhere else to turn and found that blame 'rests mainly with the fathers of their children and their own immediate families.' 

But the women faced appalling emotional torment at the hands of the nuns - forced to work scrubbing floors while being called 'fallen,' 'sinner', 'dirt' and 'spawn of Satan.' 

The Commission said that the high death rates among infants were 'probably the most disquieting feature of these institutions.' 

Survivor Carmel Larkin from Tuam who was born at the notorious Mother and Baby Home in County Galway stands beside flowers laid to the victims yesterday. Ms Larkin said: 'Well it's our holocaust isn't it? They had the holocaust in Germany but the mother and baby homes were our holocaust'

In 1945 and 1946, the death rate among infants at the homes 'was almost twice that of the national average for 'illegitimate' children.'

The inquiry was launched six years ago after evidence of an unmarked mass graveyard at Tuam, County Galway, was uncovered by amateur local historian Catherine Corless.

A group of children at the Tuam home in 1924, the site of a mass grave of up to 800 children at the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway 

She said that she had been haunted by childhood memories of skinny children from the home.

Then-Prime Minister Enda Kenny described the burial site as a 'chamber of horrors'. 

From 1921 to 1961 (when it closed), 978 children died at Tuam, 80 percent aged under 12 months, 67 percent between one and six months.

At another notorious home, Bessborough in County Cork, 75 percent of the children born or admitted in a single year, 1943, died. The girls of Bessborough are pictured above.

Three quarters of those children died in the 1930s and 40s, with the most deadly years recorded as 1943 and 1947. 

The report singled out the home for its 'appalling physical conditions.' 

It comes after a report in 2017 revealed that a mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children was discovered at a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children in Ireland.

Mass graves are found in disused sewers at a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers in Ireland.

A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers and their children in Ireland, an official report revealed in 2017.

The ages of the dead ranged from 35 foetal weeks to three years old and were mostly buried in the 1950s.

The inquiry was launched after local historian Catherine Corless said there was evidence of an unmarked graveyard at the home, where records showed almost 800 children died between 1925 and 1961.

However, there was a burial record for just one child.

In the mid-1970s, local boys playing in the field had reported seeing a pile of bones in a hidden underground chamber. 

The announcement dispelled a popular argument that bones seen at the site might predate the orphanage's opening, when the building was a workhouse for the adult poor. Some even claimed that they were from people who died in the mid-19th century Great Famine. 

The remains were found in a disused sewer during excavations at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.

The ages of the dead ranged from 35 foetal weeks to three years old and were mostly buried in the 1950s. 

In 2014, it emerged that the bodies of nearly 800 babies were believed to have been interred in a concrete tank beside a former home for unmarried mothers. 

More than one in 10 children admitted to Ireland's mother and baby homes died, the report said.

There is so much room here to criticize the Catholic Church. It's no wonder the church is being rejected all over the world. From their faulty faith, to their pride and arrogance, they deserve to be dissolved completely.

There is more to this horrid story at the Daily Mail.