SICKENING: 796 dead babies found hidden in septic tank at unwed mothers’ home run by nuns

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From the New York Post: Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead babies and children who died at a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns.

Many of the infant remains are feared to have been dumped in the cesspool known as “the pit” at the former institution in the small town of Tuam, County Galway, local historian Catherine Corless told Sky News.

In total, 798 children died at the home between 1925 and its closure in 1961, of which just two were buried in a nearby cemetery, Corless’ research found.

The other 796 children’s remains are believed to be under the site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, which was demolished in 1971 and is now surrounded by a modern apartment complex.

Bon Secours, known locally as The Home, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children, run by a religious order of Catholic nuns.

The report explains that the extent of the horrors surrounding the home was only uncovered in 2014.

Unmarried pregnant women were reportedly sent to stay at the home to give birth, and had to do unpaid work there for a year. When their babies were born, they were taken away from the young mothers and raised by the nuns until they were adopted out to other families.

One social media user noted the injustice of it all, writing, “We locked up victims of rape, we locked up victims of incest, we locked up victims of violence, we put them in laundries, we took their children, and we just handed them over to the Church to do what they wanted,” 💔.”

A chilling documentary by ITV News in early May revealed that thousands of unwed expectant mothers from Britain were deported to Ireland and incarcerated in ‘brutal’ state institutions, then their babies were forcibly adopted out.

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