800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

Manc Skipper said:

The age range of the dead was from two weeks to nine years, and a variety of illnesses from infections to malnutrition.

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It seems like the septic story is falling apart:Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 07, 2014

Not only are there significant differences as to the dates of maps and locations of septic tanks that the "historian" "forgot" to check, but the eyewitnesses to 1970s opening of a vault say there were about twenty skeletons, not 800.

It turns out that the location of the vault cooresponds on maps to known famine internments as the site was a work house.

On the other hand, that may just be an establishment smokescreen for the many wider questions stemming from the find.

Explainer: What is happening with the mass grave of children found in Tuam?

99percenter said:

800 babies buried in septic tank at Irish home for unmarried mothers

Unbelievable. Jesus strikes again.

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If there is anything unbelievable here,it is the unbelievable stupidity of thinking this has anything to do with Jesus.

The recently discovered death records for St Mary's show the 796 children died from malnutrition and infectious diseases, such as measles and TB.

Conservative Catholic teaching at the time denied children of unmarried parents baptism and therefore burial in consecrated lands.

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Remember God is love....

Gardener said:

If there is anything unbelievable here,it is the unbelievable stupidity of thinking this has anything to do with Jesus.

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You didn't read the article did you. The catholic church is responsible.

Worked in one of their hospitals. "Modern medicine, compassionate care" is their motto. Hmm.

I don't know what Jesus meant or how the bible is meant to he interpreted, but somehow it led to the systematic dehumanisation of unwed mothers and their "bastard" children. The rabbit hole of self justification.

Now there are just two priests under the age of 40 in Ireland. Well done.

Is this going to turn into the usual Catholic-bashing thread?

Corless, the researcher, discovered that 796 kids had died between 1925 and 1961. She herself says that no more than 200 could possibly be buried in what she once thought was a crypt. Barry Sweeney, one of the two boys who discovered the bones, says:

“There were skeletons thrown in there. They were all this way and that way. They weren’t wrapped in anything, and there were no coffins. But there was no way there were 800 skeletons down that hole. Nothing like that number. I don’t know where the papers got that.”

How many skeletons? “About 20.” Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 07, 2014