Justice versus Conscience

What made me cry was seeing how much he looks just like his birth-mother and how happy she was to reunited to her son.

So sad makes me cry for all the babies and children that were killed and the children who endured so much torture for being born out of wedlock

Disgraceful how the woman and children were treated, why aren’t the church paying for the DNA tests and them getting a proper burials, how can the church take about being morally right when they did these horrific things…

Every Irish person looked down on unmarried mothers and illegitimate children. Their own family were too ashamed to protect them. The fathers of these babies just washed their hands off it. They are all equally guilty.

So terribly sad. Shameful. I would not refer to these women as nuns out of respect for those nuns who do walk in the path of light. These women, rather, did masquerade as nuns but were unholy, abusive individuals.

I have to agree with Patrick. There’s something fundamentally wrong with punishing sin by treating someone with no responsibility for the situation (the child) like a sub-human, while letting one of the sinners (the father) go with no consequences what so ever. Not that I condone what happened to the mothers. – But at least it fit into that brutal logic. But that’s all the Abrahamic religions for you.

i thought the famine days were dark until I heard about this. There was so much abuse of power in this country its hard to comprehend. Dont get me wrong I would never underestimate how scary the famine was but I actually have no words as to how damaging these places must have been to all these prisoners. Anything involving the catholic church seemed to come with a very dark evil side.

This is so heartbreaking! I feel so bad for all those babies, mothers and adults that made it. I think the Catholic church should purchase all the property back and identify all those children. Give those babies a proper burial and show some respect. They should turn the site to a memorial and pay compensation to the survivors!

It’s amazing that I’m only one generation away from this type of child labor and abuse. In America my father and his brother were put in Foster Care by an Orphanage during WW2. His brother was fostered out to a religious family that weren’t Catholic. They put him in a cage and forced him to peel potatoes all day. He was beat, fed in the cage, couldn’t speak to their children. He was discovered one day when the matron of the orphanage came to do a wellness check.

Abortion was illegal but neglecting and murdering babies and children clearly wasn’t.

This is so heartbreaking, the gouvernment and the church need to confess and repair what they have done to those poor mothers and babies, give them the information they need to find lost siblings, take some responsability!

research people are doing a wonderful job. God bless these little children. Imagine the awfulness for the little babies. Breaks my heart.

My heart breaks for all of you that have been devastated by this. You are always in my prayers.

I just can not understand the pregnant girls families not standing by the girls also the father of the babies families. Shame on them, shame on the Catholic church. Bless those poor little children having to suffer this hypocrisy. Heartbreaking story!

964 skeletons were recovered from the Bon secours garden in Tuam. Over a period of 70 years or so.When you have an ancient organisation like the church I think there’s a lot to be said for mediating authories to inspect standards in these places. Even in faith schools today left to their own devices abuse can occur.

I feel so sorry for the mother’s who thought their babies was adopted, wish they had the chance to make those people who treated the young women with respect, also wished they never did this! They made them work in those places, made them so ill. Heart breaking to know that more then 1000 babies /children lost their lives without anyone knowing

I was very lucky I had a child out of wedlock. It was 1967, I had supporting family and kept my son, who is 51 today.

We talk about Nazis and the attocities of the SS…but we forget our own history and attrocities as easily. Parents should educate their children not turning a blind eye. young irish are not tought about their country’s history…social class issues of the past..expotation of the poor and THIS…christian-class system…if you were a women of the lowest rank and got pregnant you were by yourself…turning to your church and community to be told you were discrace and give up your child to a ‘concentration’ house run by the church AND state.

Heartbreaking, felt so sad for those children who endured so much suffering

“And you would’ve made a beautiful mother”… what a sweet boy.

heartbreaking I hope all these people get justice and find peace in there hearts the ones who wronged will meet there maker one day

my grandfather was in one of these homes, he had no direct contact with his maternal family because he was born out of wedlock 🙁

These babies didn’t die – they was murderd !

Makes my trip to Ireland next week feel bleak. I wish I knew earlier so I could have visited.

this was going on for years,not just in tuem but all over the country. this is only the tip of the iceberg

catherine Corless is a saint

There is no excuses what was done was evil regardless of the time it happened i n. Murder is murder, abuse is abuse and slavery is slavery it does not matter who’s hands it happens at…they where heartless and money hungry…

14.:05 “You would have made a beautiful mother” – just breaks my heart

The Catholic Church need to admit this atrocity, and these families and grown children should be compensated! They need to face this head on️️️

Catherine, great woman

How is it physically possible to be this evil wtf

There needs a Nurnburg style tribunal. Crimes against humanity. Bon Secours, Sisters of Mercy silent. Why is the Irish State acting? All Church property in Ireland must be expropriated and some portion for the victims.

I’m truly upset by all of this about what happened in Ireland

I am from Sean Ross Abbey Orphanage and sold to a family in the U.S.A.

these babys need justice and descent burial ,i visited ireland last week for a week and this popped up and i stay in maam ,i visited the sight of these bays ,its so sad ,the church and goverment has blood on its hands and justice needs to been seen to be done ;0(

Thank you Catherine! The power of one!

I question why children were dying of malnutrition while they were supposed to be taken care of by the Catholic Church, which is so rich. Unacceptable!

Its enough to punish the mother because they deemed her a sinner. but why punish an innocent child and why wasn’t the father deemed a sinner and punished. Such a hard time of hardship and poverty is no excuse for such behaviour by authorities. A bucket of soap and water cost nothing but instead the children were neglected and not respected by putting these innocents in mass graves as if they did not exist.

Many Blessings Appreciate Sharing

OMG How tragic – these people who follow the church do what they bloody well like with children in their care.

Many cemeteries did not bother to record teh burials of those enterred in “pauper” graves. I am curious as to why the pictures of the Sisters shown in this documentary are not Bon Secours Sisters, the habit is entirely different. The Sisters shown are Sisters of teh Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary from Chigwell in Essex.

What were those nuns doing? If there were too many children to take care of surly they could have found other means of getting some help. For shame.

This horrific practice was brought to the U.S. by Catholic Nuns. State-sponsored here as well. Many of these homes performed laundry services for the wealthy and these women and children were sent into a lifetime of servitude doing laundry 24/7 for their wealthy clients.

Breaks my heart

My deepest apologies to Sinead O’Connor. She tried to tell us.

The death of insurmountable innocence on the shoulders of Tuam in the pre-war years in no way going to lead to a balanced discussion on YB yet I am so mournful of those loses of life. However, catholisism post-war years a different matter entirely when birth control absoloutely should have been considered essential (avoiding abortion) whilst stabilizing individual family incomes that did not wholly depend upon child mortaility rates to achieve it.

All those responsible should be dragged out in the streets, flogged and either stoned or burned to death for what they did to those poor innocent children and babies >:-( Also the little ones gone, should be given proper rights & respect <3 Poor things..

The victims should sue the Irish Government and Vatican. Also they should change their Constitution to separate church and state.

give them a proper resting place, its not a hard decition

Irish government have closed the case dating back to 30 years. It’s all down to the church of Ireland. FF and FG I’m discusted to be Irish

When Christian run the orphanages, they prayed to the loving father and ask him for his blessing. They raised and educated the children up very well to be an excellent individuals. They taught the children to read the BIBLE. Why the Catholic churches do these when they even have lots of money? WHY? WHY? AND WHY?

I’ll never understand why Catholic churches are still standing to this day. So much pain and sorrow in buildings where you’re supposed to trust those powerful people. It’s absolutely disgusting.

Neither mother nor child should be punished! Bunch of doddering old fools in robes ruling and ruining peoples’ lives!

Jesus would never condon what the church and state have done.

I was born in a mother-baby home in Cork in 1953….adopted 8 weeks short of 3yrs old. The nuns must have been fantastic as I had great life there (my mom said I was very happy child…big smiles..big cavaties cuz I liked sweets. Rather than being “sold for profit” quickly it took one and a half years with constant letter writing (I have letters) and a mother to be who taught special ed and father to be who was a lawyer and two uncles who were priest…yet the process was still long. Thats my experience so lets not condemn the whole idea and put a negative spin on nuns. I wish girls in the US had such a system. A friend of mine on disability had very rough time when she got pregnant….naturally I helped support her cuz deadbeat guys fled…and I got criticized for helping. So thats my one pence comment.

The last Magdalene Laundry (Sean McDermott St) closed down in ireland was in 1996.

And people wonder why Northern Ireland doesn’t want to secede to the Irish Catholic State.

i believe these children will be the warriors that come back when yahuah returns

Just finished listening to all segments of the BBC podcast on this subject. Having had Irish-born parents (R.I.P.) who emigrated to America doesn’t qualify me as an expert on the way things were, but I think this: “the temper (or: the spirit) of the times” was way different back then. Poverty was still rampant. That being so, The State slept with The Church, and their resulting progeny was An Evil. For better or indeed for worse, RC priests had become modern “chieftains. The nuns, ready or not for the task, had to take throwaway children who had been disowned, or were unacknowledged, by the mother and baby’s families. No excuses, but just stating that the mother’s and father’s families were just as much or more to blame as “Holy Mother Church” and the negligent State.

Maybe you can find diaries the nuns wrote, perhaps stories the cleaning people told, or a filing cabinet that used to be kept in there or something. They had to keep some record. And DNA testing the bodies, and a DNA company for the adopted out. My family on both sides had adopted people…Dugan on Mother’s side.

I wonder if any of the nuns are still alive

Tell the Good Catholics, Jesus does not accept deceit. Satan does and they may need to explain the deceit in the afterlife

The Catholic church should be ashamed of what they did to the children and Mothers. The government deserves to be ashamed too.

The Catholic Church responds by saying “truth and reconciliation” is needed right now but how can this be when these evil priests and nuns didn’t offer their victims this get out of hell card All religions that is preaching anything other than The Almighty Father God, The Universal Creator the one true God. Are now cursed for their evil against the innocent’s deeds. In Jesus’s mighty name.

Here in Canada same happen with the aboriginal children by the catholic church .

What happen to men who got the women pregnant? Did they become outcasts, too?

As a Irish person I’m ashamed of my country

Mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries stayed open until the 90s! The last laundry closed in 1996

Utterly shocking

Shame on the parents. Your child that you left at the mercy of strangers. Shame on you.

God bless and keep Eire ..

So so sad…at least the truth is out in the light.

I am Irish and my grandmother who was born in 1920 and is now dead, said that when she was young priests used to go around the roads in Ireland on their bicycles looking for young couples and beat them with sticks. irish people were so frightened of the catholic church

My mother went to private boarding school that are parents paid for Catholic School she said the nuns were mean and would beat their hands with rulers and we’re not nice and this was in the United States my mother is 80 now but she told me about that

Shameful

and we wonder why now so many are non believers

The pope has the power to do something about this. The question is will he? For the sake of his religion and for the sake of these children who are basically tortured to death and for the ones who survived the lifelong Tabu of being born and the torture that they went through he should

My aunts got pregnant by married dudes who said they was single sixties but grandpa did not turn them in my aunt wore a wedding ringlie

they didnt have the power they had perceived power because people had recourse to challenge them

I love in Ireland tuam/galway but I am moving to galway city

It’s so sad

Genocides happened for white folk too. Sometimes we forget that there have been many nationalities who have suffered.

Suffer little children, those little children, innocent the catholic church has a lot to answer for. Mother’s treated like slaves, parted from their children treated like they were nothing.

Now that enough time has passed, and everybody is dead, we can finally talk about it. I wonder what people will say about us in 80 years, when we are all dead? Probably not good things.

The last one was closed in 1992. So damn sad.

This story is something like the story of Butterbox babies… All of them are murdered and also buried in the backyard.

Tuam the shame of the Irish Catholic Church

This put people off going to the church every sunday, and with the children being abused aswell for years.

Do things like this still happen now?

Get them to demolish that play ground . The children need to be heard had laid to rest

Ireland was & is a horrific place to live & grow up in. Not the country …..just the people

lost children of ireland

Bon secours, they didn’t understand the meaning of the word….

And just think, this was only one institution.

Let’s not forget the families who gave up those children.

horrifying

Several of these poor women were raped victims. Forced to leave and go away without their babies and austrisized from the community. The children were innocent souls traumatized and starved for nothing more then existing.

And we hated sinead o Connor…..

Men get to play then walk away while women’s to pay.

I wonder how many would want there children be reburied by the Catholic Church who so badly treated them In the first place, the Nuns should be totally ashamed of themselves, .

It wasn’t enough to punish the mother either.

Did that man find his sister? Did they do dna tests?

Why punish the mother only where the father?

Sick devils , some things don`t change !

So sick of these Catholic churches and popes! People need real repentance and the real Jesus that’s Love NOT abuse and murder! Let the evil go down in Jesus Name!! Its an empty religion without the real Holy Spirit!

Malnutrition isn’t a “natural cause” of death… sometimes “sorry” isn’t good enough.

Terrible..that story of the man that First at the nuns then adopted only to get hit every day for no reason and forced to work on a farm every day was awful. What an abuse of power.. poor kids.

Wicked evil people. These poor little children didn’t even have a chance. They are with Jesus and He loves them.

Why did nobody do anything for the children of Tuam? Why did nobody do anything for the million children in German death camps? Why, why, why???? And, why is the Catholic Church always quiet???

Jesus said.. Do not forget the children of Gehenna

I wonder why the Irish still go to the Catholic Church in droves????

They are not forgotten.

Evidently, the church went to hell to find nuns to run this place.

Make the church pay up I offer my DNA report

Obviously from whst i hear of the catholic religion if the wedded mother isn,t having enough kids the “father , goes riund to give a helping hand. Msybe thats why he,s labeled “Father”!

Disgusted Irishman living in Dublin, Sick to my stomach with this banana republic, the church had far too much to say here for far too long.

Why punish the child and why not punish the father? Don’t act like it’s about the sin, or you’d have done it the right way! Murderers!

OMG/////

Sorry to break it to you but the septic tank was built on top of a children’s graveyard between 1972 and 1982.

what more can the catholic church hide behind??

DNA test!!!!

The Catholic Church did have the power which they horribly abused, and they lost the power which they’ll never again regain. The world knows of this horrid abuse and will never surrender this type of power to the church again. Where did they even find these type of nuns or people?! Horrid creatures.

they got still the power, expropriate the Catholic church

What kinda of nun are they murderous.

catholics prolife? noooooooooo.

Dang man

I don’t understand why the ppl that knew ,said nothing about it, they have to pay for keeping their mouth shut,

The church was horrible and thankfully it has lost its power, most people have left it here in Ireland and atheism has been growing rapidly since 2009

The parents of these women should have kept them and the kids instead of throwing them out

Sound like Jane eyre nuns

Christianity have been blaming women ense the beginning. Christianity been bad for Ireland since it came. Ireland return to tour roots. This was away of getting rid of the irish people.

And people still make donations to the Church?

If it wasnt the church again

Form where does this propaganda originate – from across the Irish Sea. Plus ca change plus c’est la meme chose. No, I am not referring to France.

You and l have much to answer for.

Welp I surpose the good Lord either looked the other way or is he the reason for this type of fkery

OMG. Terrible.

As if the nuns didn’t do any sins!!!!!!!! Shame shame them shame horrible nuns

Did they arrested anyone in this horrible genocide?

I don’t understand this kind of evil using the excuse of God.

whta the pope says about that?

Anything from the pope?

How horrible.

Please read this little book .(Who is Esau-Edom ?)By Charles Weisman .it’s a very short book,but a lot of Information for our People.Yahweh Bless you all

Terrible

hypocrisy of christianity

If Catholics really did this it would be a great sin against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, which are the same doctrines of Jesus Christ. Why don’ t you do some research before spitting out lies. Those who hate the Church, hate Christ and would crucify Him again today if they could.