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Bodies of 800 babies found in Septic Tank, at Irish Home.
« on: June 03, 2014, 09:18:06 AM »
Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers
BY TERRENCE MCCOY
June 3 at 4:48 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/03/bodies-of-800-babies-long-dead-found-in-septic-tank-at-former-irish-home-for-unwed-mothers/?tid=sm_fb
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Re: Bodies of 800 babies found in Septic Tank, at Irish Home.
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 09:58:16 AM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/03/bodies-of-800-babies-long-dead-found-in-septic-tank-at-former-irish-home-for-unwed-mothers/?tid=sm_fb

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The fucking Irish nuns are the worst, a sorry lot.
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Re: Bodies of 800 babies found in Septic Tank, at Irish Home.
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 01:02:04 PM »

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/04/children-galway-mass-graves-ireland-catholic-church


Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway's mass graves
Forget prayers. Only full disclosure by Ireland's Catholic church can begin to atone for the children who died in its care
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Re: Bodies of 800 babies found in Septic Tank, at Irish Home.
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2014, 06:40:10 PM »
800 babies is the largest number found sofar but it is not the only place. The Angel plot at another place in Ireland contains bodies as well, just not 800. We can only guess how many children who didn't make it.

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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2014, 06:03:46 PM »
Thanks Oscar. It is profoundly sad reading material.
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Just as we thought the world couldn't be more cruel
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2014, 05:16:09 AM »
Quote from: Essential Baby
Children in Irish homes were used in vaccine trials

Hundreds of children born to unmarried mothers in Ireland may have been used as guinea pigs for the testing of new vaccinations, according to new revelations that added to pressure on the government in Dublin to launch a full-scale investigation into the country's care homes.

Ireland's 10 homes for unmarried mothers and their babies were said to have participated in the vaccination trials, which took place between 1960 and 1976 and involved 298 children.

In one of the trials, held at five different homes, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle.

No documentation about the trials has been published, but an Irish radio programme yesterday (Monday) alleged wide-scale testing on children.

"My arms and legs were very badly scarred," recalled Christy, who did not give his full name but was adopted from one of the homes - Bessborough House, in County Cork.

"But when I asked my Mum why, she said when I arrived my arms were very sore and they were bandaged. I didn't know anything about vaccination trials. I've since been to a few doctors and they said they'd never seen anything like it - with so many injections."

Sister Sarto, a former social worker at Bessborough House, admitted that the vaccination testing took place at the home, but told Newstalk radio that parental consent was sought for the trials.

"The doctor would come here and say could they carry out this experiment, and the mother would bring the child into the doctor's. You couldn't do it without the mother's permission," she said.

GlaxoSmithKline, which took over the drug firm that ran the trials, Burroughs Welcome, said the activities, if true, were "very distressing" and that it would cooperate with any investigation. There were no laws on medical testing in Ireland until 1987.

Results of trials on 58 children at six homes, including Bessborough, were published in the British Medical Journal in 1962, and in June 2001 an inquiry was ordered into the experiments.

But that inquiry was halted when Prof Patrick Meenan, one of six authors of the original study and by then aged 86, said he should not have to appear on grounds of his age and ill health.

A subsequent inquiry was blocked by Irene Hillary, a former professor of microbiology, in 2004.

The disclosure followed last week's scandal over the deaths of 800 children whose remains were discovered in a concrete septic tank at at the Tuam home for unwed mothers and their infants in County Galway. Research by Catherine Corless, a historian, uncovered a mortality rate among "illegitimate" infants that academics described as "staggering".

Government records show that throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, the death rate was often more than five times that of children born to married parents.

On average, more than one in four children born out of wedlock died.

"I have been saying for years that we need answers about what exactly happened at places like Bessborough," said John Barrett, who was born there in 1952.

"There could well be thousands of babies buried there."