Bones of 800 children discovered in septic tank of nun-operated home in Ireland

[vacuum]

Just totally fucked up.

This is what a world looks like where no one cares.

Here's an excerpt from the link.

On Liveline during the week, a clear picture emerged. Unmarried mothers incarcerated until they signed over their babies, healthy children sold to be adopted by wealthy Americans and disabled infants, who had no sale value, abandoned in “Dying Rooms”, and their bodies dumped by the brides of Christ in a septic tank.

This was a nationwide industry founded on human suffering. In a country utterly corrupted by its own twisted version of Catholicism and run by a complicit elite, young women who “fell pregnant” were condemned. They had sinned and were left to the mercy of perverts and brutes. Their children were a tainted commodity to be sold or discarded at the whim of people considered “religious”.

A further horror is that it seems highly unlikely Tuam was the only mother and baby home which starved infants and crammed their tiny bodies into unmarked graves. The dead children must number in the thousands.

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/mass-grave-galway-tuam-1494001-May2014/

[Cebu_4_2]

Some people are just evil by nature. Something like this has no conscience ~ The Elite.

[singular_me]

I believed this has happened a lot when abortion was prohibited. Not condoning abortion here at all but we can only go by the pro-life stance by looking at the facts.

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from the article:
A further horror is that it seems highly unlikely Tuam was the only mother and baby home which starved infants and crammed their tiny bodies into unmarked graves. The dead children must number in the thousands.

Expect the usual Defenders of the Faith to trot out their well-practised ”few bad apples” lines. ”The vast majority of Catholic institutions did great good for Irish children,” they’ll tell us.

[Spectrism]

I believed this has happened a lot when abortion was prohibited. Not condoning abortion here at all but we can only go by the pro-life stance by looking at the facts.


I will temper my remarks granting that english is not your first language and the possibility that what I read is not what you intended. The "pro-life stance" has nothing to do with this atrocity and it is shameful for you to attempt to draw them together. Pro-life is not just an abortion issue but the entire life of the human experience. All human life should be respected as a gift and valued.

[old steel]

The old house down east was a retreat for the Catholic church back in the day. All nuns with a priest overseeing the operation.

Grandpa was told there were bodies of babies buried down there by a few in the know.

To this day the place is haunted, i've seen things with my own eyes that defy explanation.

[singular_me]

do not use the fact that English isnt my birth language, I can take it :) My editorials are accepted by high traffic sites, sure when I write a column I have more time to rephrase it a gazillion times ... not on here.

many people have absolutely no idea about women's conditions before abortion, abortion is unhetical/crimnal but we just replace a crime with another.

like I have said many times, abolish wars and people will start looking at Life differently... laws are not working because society never tackles the root cause.

The anti-abortion lobby is just another deception, I am afraid. It should be stricking at the root, not the consequences



I will temper my remarks granting that english is not your first language and the possibility that what I read is not what you intended. The "pro-life stance" has nothing to do with this atrocity and it is shameful for you to attempt to draw them together. Pro-life is not just an abortion issue but the entire life of the human experience. All human life should be respected as a gift and valued.

[Ponce]

I can only wonder how many of those baby's belonged to the nuns themselves......like it was in Mexico where many were found in the premises of the nuns convent.

V

[Spectrism]

I can only wonder how many of those baby's belonged to the nuns themselves......like it was in Mexico where many were found in the premises of the nuns convent.
V

Yes- I read long ago that convents were largely abortion mills with babies of nuns being discarded wholesale. God gave man woman for a reason. The bible says NOT to forbid men to marry. Marriage is given as the way for sharing lives in a healthy way. The laws of God are not to punish us but to make us better toward each other.



do not use the fact that English isnt my birth language, I can take it :) My editorials are accepted by high traffic sites, sure when I write a column I have more time to rephrase it a gazillion times ... not on here.

many people have absolutely no idea about women's conditions before abortion, abortion is unhetical/crimnal but we just replace a crime with another.

like I have said many times, abolish wars and people will start looking at Life differently... laws are not working because society never tackles the root cause.

The anti-abortion lobby is just another deception, I am afraid. It should be stricking at the root, not the consequences

Well, this time you came through loud and clear and confused. How do you abolish wars? Maybe by waging war against anyone who does not like your concept of abolishing wars.

The anti-abortion lobby hates murdering babies. You don't put that on hold while trying to convert the souls of the damned. Abortion is happening NOW. You cannot undo it after it is done.

[singular_me]

The "pro-life stance" has nothing to do with this atrocity
it is not my English but your tunnel vision. I never implied it.

we can only go by the pro-life stance by looking at the facts, meaning that we can only change when we allow ourselves to face the horror.

no, you are confused... because you think that going after abortion, one is going to win while govs can go kill in whatever name? This is what confuses people and make them feel right about killing themselves. Ending wars could have soooo many positive effects on society. How can I sound confused when saying this ???

yes, I persist, pro-life lobbies, just like any other ones are deceptive. If peace and pro-life entities were serious about doing their job, they would address the 101 core issues. Targeting consequences only adds more layers of conflicts... yet many wonder why we are in a state of chaos. Look no further.


Marriage is given as the way for sharing lives in a healthy way.

Healthy way? It is religious fairy tale... Lets talk of a taboo here because obviously you have no idea of how many women didnt want to have sex because sex meant pregnancy and feared to have a newborn every year. The clandestine abortion (often deadly) and orphanage solutions were rampant... before contraception. Or wait, I have to ask are you against contraception?

it is not yet the day you will frame me, Spectrism.




Well, this time you came through loud and clear and confused. How do you abolish wars? Maybe by waging war against anyone who does not like your concept of abolishing wars.

meaning that *you* do not like it? So, are you a born again... for war?

[zap]

I'm not pro life, if a bunch of these useless eaters today would either use birth control or have abortions we'd be better off , think of Shanikwa or Maria with her 5 or 6 kids with all those babies daddies and all the welfare they are getting along with not taking care of their kids, let them roam around in the streets ! Really ?

Just breeding a bunch of gang banger useless bastards!

[singular_me]

pregnancy issues before 1950s were a real dilemma
state welfare sponsoring births.
most women abort for economic reasons...


I'm not pro life, if a bunch of these useless eaters today would either use birth control or have abortions we'd be better off , think of Shanikwa or Maria with her 5 or 6 kids with all those babies daddies and all the welfare they are getting along with not taking care of their kids, let them roam around in the streets ! Really ?

Just breeding a bunch of gang banger useless bastards!

[Glass]

I'm not pro life, if a bunch of these useless eaters today would either use birth control or have abortions we'd be better off , think of Shanikwa or Maria with her 5 or 6 kids with all those babies daddies and all the welfare they are getting along with not taking care of their kids, let them roam around in the streets ! Really ?

Just breeding a bunch of gang banger useless bastards!

But I think they are a product of society. If you have no tools other than to have kids to get $$ for survival and no moral compass to know that YOU and YOU alone should support those kids then where's the fault at?

The problem is a catch 22, chicken and egg. My personal opinion is that women made a mistake by accepting the sufferage as it was offered. The cost, mostly hidden, has pretty much destroyed the family unit. It sounded good but it was a poisoned chalice. It eviscerated the masculine role in the family. Over time, a very short time, it replaced the male role model with the state role model. as the state has no moral fibre the result is a family unit without moral fibre. It is bound to fail.

So the young ladies who "breed" useless eaters are doing so in a vacuum of morals and knowledge. They don't know any better because their role models were taken from them and destroyed.

This observation is always met with feminist rhetoric about spousal abuse and women raising kids on their own because the father was a beater or a drugie but the father is suffering the same issues. No family structure. No father authority figure. Only a state based authority which again offers no moral guidance. So, lost, all at sea, no means to debate/argue their situation with authorities. Authorities advising the wifes of the PATH OUT OF THE RELATIONSHIP. The men lash out because they have no other avenue and this is held up as the "EVIDENCE" that the relationship is rotten and the male is a beast.

I highlighted some words in caps but not because I am yelling. I have seen a lot of stuff. I have seen families destroyed because of this bolshevic garbage. I have seen the lies and deceit of the governments policies on families and the violence and destruction if causes to the people who believe it.

I've also seen what seriously bad relationships can do but I always ask. Which came first? The government bullshit or the victims (men and women) violent reactions? Often times it is not as clear cut. I know a lot of people are dead from domestic violence and some people are just bad but a lot of people are driven there by the system and the system knows what it is doing.

all of this is not really the point of the OP. The point of the OP is that another 800 souls were killed in some fashion when they were just babes.

[singular_me]

the problem goes much further back.... I dont see it as a catch 22

the problem is the model, there is no model per se for humans. Thinking that all women (edit: and men) must/can embrace the family role model is a delusion. What works for the animal kingdom is not necessarily applicable to humans as we have another awareness level, hence have freewill and dominion over nature.

The catch 22 disappears as soon as we accept that framing men and women into specific roles bring about chaos. Conformism is a scourge. Patriarchy has caused so much wars and female repression in ALL cultures. I am not saying that Matriarchy is the way either... feminism is wrong as it stands today, but it initially was the response to a century-old female oppression that is pretty well documented.

It is not because the NWO derailed it that we have to trash it completely. We live in an extremely polarized world, and when I see so many men taking is so personally, claiming to be eviscerated, indeed the NWO agenda is clearly working just fine




The problem is a catch 22, chicken and egg. My personal opinion is that women made a mistake by accepting the sufferage as it was offered. The cost, mostly hidden, has pretty much destroyed the family unit. It sounded good but it was a poisoned chalice. It eviscerated the masculine role in the family. Over time, a very short time, it replaced the male role model with the state role model. as the state has no moral fibre the result is a family unit without moral fibre. It is bound to fail.

[Glass]

It seems to me we are sold ideals that truly should be jewels in the development of humanity and they turn out the opposite of the hope. Our fault if it happens. Its a tough subject because there is a problem of violence and it did exist before the womens movement as it does today. I guess its like all of them. Those problems of society. So murky now how some started. Crystal clear for others. I guess the point is can we fix it? I feel a more traditional values society would be better but the time when that existed, but due to my age at a time I think that existed I can't be sure I experienced any thing traditional.

I think we get a lot of things backward and it's mostly from ignorance.

I'll add frame to my earlier post. I look at things from the perspective of what did the government take away? When they "give" something it means they usually took away more. I believe the sufferage movement enabled them to take away the castle. It basically gave women a franchise to operate in commerce the same as men. The side result of that meant that the family home was no longer held at arms length from commerce.

In the old days everything was in the wifes name because it was safe from commercial lien. This is no longer the case. Everyone is in commerce. Women needed more protection. What they needed was access to the protections of the society. A tough trade off but necessary to access commerce and better protections. My projection of the way we were says we weren't perfect. I don't know if I am right though. Anyway I've seen men doing things to women and women doing things to men. In the microcosm of the moment it seems necessary or justified. In the macrocosm of human generations it's looks like a loss to society. I think women need the same rights a men and men need the same rights as women and the family home should be clear of all of it. I wrote a whole lot of crap up there but its simple really.

[mick silver]

how can anyone kill a baby that know no wrong

[singular_me]

I am following your reasoning and I only see is the state behind any social changes and controlled oppositions.

it all boils down to the "who am I and what do I really want"... critical thinking is not possible when raised with whatever models pushed down our throats. From an elite standpoint it is all about giving people the impression they have a choice (one only can choose among the following available models)...

The family model's main purpose is to provide the state with enough soldiers to go to war.. Now that women can join the army, it doesnt really matter anymore, another win-win for the war agenda and most likely a major component in the so-called female emancipation. The NWO is at least 100 years ahead of the trends while manipulating them all continually.

Men and women alike are equally fooled, so the blame game is just adding to the injury.

Being a woman, my guess is that at least 50% of females are not suited for raising a family, and that could be true for men too. It is just how nature works things out, to regulate naturally population. But the expectation of parents to become grandparents is projected into kids, because of the state sponsored family model in the first place. If people could make this choice truly freely, society wouldnt be out of whack. After all it is crystal clear by now that it has always been that way as we all are stock market assets.... to create fake booms babies are needed.



It seems to me we are sold ideals that truly should be jewels in the development of humanity and they turn out the opposite of the hope. Our fault if it happens. Its a tough subject because there is a problem of violence and it did exist before the womens movement as it does today. I guess its like all of them. Those problems of society. So murky now how some started. Crystal clear for others. I guess the point is can we fix it? I feel a more traditional values society would be better but the time when that existed, but due to my age at a time I think that existed I can't be sure I experienced any thing traditional.

I think we get a lot of things backward and it's mostly from ignorance.

I'll add frame to my earlier post. I look at things from the perspective of what did the government take away? When they "give" something it means they usually took away more. I believe the sufferage movement enabled them to take away the castle. It basically gave women a franchise to operate in commerce the same as men. The side result of that meant that the family home was no longer held at arms length from commerce.

In the old days everything was in the wifes name because it was safe from commercial lien. This is no longer the case. Everyone is in commerce. Women needed more protection. What they needed was access to the protections of the society. A tough trade off but necessary to access commerce and better protections. My projection of the way we were says we weren't perfect. I don't know if I am right though. Anyway I've seen men doing things to women and women doing things to men. In the microcosm of the moment it seems necessary or justified. In the macrocosm of human generations it's looks like a loss to society. I think women need the same rights a men and men need the same rights as women and the family home should be clear of all of it. I wrote a whole lot of crap up there but its simple really.

[Glass]

I'm not sure what suited means? Uninterested? Disfunctional? Incapable?

One thing I have realised is that parenting is not skill set you pickup at school, any school. It is something a lot of people get into unexpectedly but it is also something a lot of people get into expectedly. And it is probably something you learn how to do as you go along perhaps?

But the OP was about killing little defenceless babies for SOME reason. that there were 800 there says something was out of whack. I know being sent to a convent was probably code in a lot of instances for pregnancy out of wedlock which was a shameful thing in those days.

I will say that I was nearly one of those kinds of babies.... seems shotguns were deployed - figuratively speaking but then I was from a family of early adopters it seems. Early adopters of no fault divorce, early adopters of single parent home lifestyles, early adopters of some other things that cause problems for the family unit, debt servitude was one. I'll leave the real bad stuff for another time which probably wont come.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for a sad story of what I feel was despair. I think there is nothing worse than despair. If it doesn't get dealt with it causes lost souls. Unfortunately the agony of despair is lucious sustenance for others. the key is to not end up as their sustenance. A spiritual battle if ever there was one.

[Dachsie]

I want to know if any of the "nuns" of the order that ran that orphanage are still around. I want to know if the babies were aborted or murdered in another way. I want some truth and justice.

As far as the other discussions, I do not see that true Christian morality has so far entered into the discussion.

The destruction of our nation's industry and production and sovereignty has been destroyed by design by all operatives of the entire political spectrum. Usury and outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas and shipping destitute people into a country to quickly turn the country into a third world hell hole is what destroyed the family. The pressures put on people to just survive cause all sorts of immorality.

Children need to be born to a married couple and the married couple need to be committed to staying together and bonding and raising the children in a loving protective environment. That is the only way a child can grow up to be a person capable of carrying on the human race. I do not see how any of this can happen if there are no jobs and workers are expendable to robots.

[singular_me]

suited? I am referring to a % of population that shouldnt have become parents, for whatever reason. I have come across many adults saying that if they would have known, they would have done something different with their lives and been a lot more independent. On the other hand, yes there are people who really need a mate and a family. The social peer pressure to settle down and have kids has always existed however.

thanks for sharing your story which is for sure very touching. But Glass , dont take it personally, the average family has always been dysfunctional. Stories of harmonious families are kinda seldom and it always has been this way too. And at the core we always find a lack of freedom, the state-war-cartel and religious conformism.

as for OP, yes it tells about an awful discovery, but when I look at the whole picture, I also see Iraqi kids born with birth defects caused by depleted uranium, obviously the nightmare isnt over yet ... (just example among many)

not willing to derail the thread but such horrible events are just telling the same bottom line story in the end.



I'm not sure what suited means? Uninterested? Disfunctional? Incapable?

One thing I have realised is that parenting is not skill set you pickup at school, any school. It is something a lot of people get into unexpectedly but it is also something a lot of people get into expectedly. And it is probably something you learn how to do as you go along perhaps?

But the OP was about killing little defenceless babies for SOME reason. that there were 800 there says something was out of whack. I know being sent to a convent was probably code in a lot of instances for pregnancy out of wedlock which was a shameful thing in those days.

I will say that I was nearly one of those kinds of babies.... seems shotguns were deployed - figuratively speaking but then I was from a family of early adopters it seems. Early adopters of no fault divorce, early adopters of single parent home lifestyles, early adopters of some other things that cause problems for the family unit, debt servitude was one. I'll leave the real bad stuff for another time which probably wont come.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for a sad story of what I feel was despair. I think there is nothing worse than despair. If it doesn't get dealt with it causes lost souls. Unfortunately the agony of despair is lucious sustenance for others. the key is to not end up as their sustenance. A spiritual battle if ever there was one.

[singular_me]

the side effect of religious dogmatic moral, being condemned by society for having a child as single mother. I'd bet that those "homes" were widespread in EU.

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Mass grave at Galway home not the only one, says Irish leader Kenny
June 06,2014

The mass grave of 796 children at a former home for unwed mothers and children in Tuam, Co. Galway is likely not the only one of its kind in Ireland, Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said.

Speaking from the US, where he is currently on a trade mission, Kenny said that Flanagan and his committee would determine “whether this is an isolated [incident] or whether there are others around the country that need to be looked at” and to “decide what is the best thing to do in the interests of dealing with another element of our country's past.”

He also acknowledged that the government had not been entirely ignorant of the dire conditions at the Tuam home, where children suffered from malnutrition and other serious ailments.

“The history of mother and baby homes in Ireland in the early and middle decades of the 20th century reflects a brutally unforgiving response by society, religious and State institutions and, in many cases, families, to young women and children when they were in most need and most vulnerable,” he said in a statement. “It is fully recognized by me and my government colleagues that we need to establish the truth.”

Many other homes for unwed mothers, their “illegitimate” children and other orphans operated in Ireland throughout the 1900s. There was Bessborough in Co. Cork, Sean Ross in Tipperary (where Philomena Lee had her son), and Castlepollard in Westmeath – all run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. The mortality rates at these homes were far higher than the national average, the Irish Examiner recently reported, ranging from 30% - 50% between 1930 and 1945.

more
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Mass-grave-at-Tuam-Childrens-Home-not-the-only-one-says-Kenny.html

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Thousands of children in Irish care homes at centre of 'baby graves scandal' were used in secret vaccine trials in the 1930s

Scientists secretly gave 2,051 children and babies diphtheria vaccine
They were used as guinea pigs for drugs giant Burroughs Wellcome in 1930s
Academic Michael Dwyer uncovered shock truth in old medical records
He found no evidence of consent, nor of how many died or were affected
Comes as Irish PM intervenes from U.S. over scandal of mass baby grave
Hundreds of babies are believed to have been buried at former baby home
Enda Kenny says he's ordered his officials to examine 'if there are others'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650475/More-mass-baby-graves-Ireland-Prime-Minister-Enda-Kenny-orders-investigation-memorial-800-dead-babies-planned.html

[singular_me]

Gagged: TD booted out of the Dail for trying to discuss the baby grave scandal

Jun 04, 2014

Colm Keaveney was removed after calling for debate on the 800 babies found in Galway as politicians talked about Libya and the weather instead

A furious TD has accused the Government of stifling debate on the mass baby grave scandal.

Fianna Fail’s Colm Keaveney was BOOTED out of the chamber after criticising the Dail’s decision not to allow him to discuss the issue.

Discussion of the scandal, picked up by global news outlets, was rejected in the chamber in favour of topics including the ongoing crisis in Libya and school weather warnings.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/gagged-td-booted-out-dail-3646334

[singular_me]

excellent decision but I hope he understands that he is opening a can of worms
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june 8
Catholic Leader Seeks Irish Probe into Mass graves

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland should investigate the Catholic Church's mistreatment and burial of babies who died decades ago in nun-operated homes for unmarried mothers, a senior church official declared Sunday as the country confronted another shameful chapter of its history of child abuse.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin made his appeal following revelations that hundreds of children who died inside a former church-run residence for infants were buried in unmarked graves at the site in western Ireland.

Martin said the probe should have no church involvement, be led by a judge and examine the treatment of children in "mother and baby homes" for unwed mothers and their newborns. These mostly operated in Ireland from the 1920s to 1960s, when Catholic policy and control of social services reached their zenith in post-independence Ireland.

Typically, the women's families and wider society had shamed and rejected them because of their pregnancies. Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and, if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities, also denied a Christian burial.

A researcher found records showing that 796 children, mostly infants, died at the home in Tuam, County Galway, from its 1925 opening to its 1962 closure. Residents suspect they were interred in a nearby field, including in a disused septic tank. Ireland had approximately 10 such "mother and home" facilities run by different orders of nuns until the 1960s.

The government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny, which has had rocky relations with the Vatican since taking power in 2011, already has authorized police and government record-trawling efforts into the Tuam home and may recommend a wider inquiry. Ireland previously has funded four fact-finding investigations into the church's cover-up of child abuse inside industrial schools and by priests in Dublin, Cork and the southeast county of Wexford.

Martin said the next government inquiry should focus on all "mother and baby" institutions, not just Tuam, because the problem of unmarked graves existed at most if not all of them. He said the investigation should explore long-held allegations that many children in the homes were sold illegally to adopted families overseas, and many others used without their mother's legal consent as test subjects in vaccine trials.

"These are very complicated and very sensitive issues," Martin told the national broadcaster RTE. "But the only way we will come out of this particular period of our history is when the truth comes out."

He said the high infant mortality rates in the homes, and contemporary inspections documenting evidence of malnutrition, suggested that supervising nuns "did not want to understand how you look after children and how you examine the special care that children need at that early stage."

http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2902722-catholic-leader-seeks-irish-probe-mass-graves.html#.2396-stage-set1-2

[singular_me]

illegitimate babies killed... women sentenced to seclusion for life for sex.
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Unmarried mothers, kids, in Tuam were scorned and shunned
http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/Unmarried-mothers-kids-in-Tuam-were-scorned-and-shunned-.html



The Magdalene Laundry

‘Someone once said the only thing really new in the world is the history we don’t know. The Irish people are learning that right now and it’s a painful experience.

It began five years ago when an order of nuns in Dublin sold off part of its convent to real estate developers. On that property were the remains of 133 women buried in unmarked graves, and buried with them was a scandal.

As it turns out, the women had been virtual prisoners, confined by the Catholic Church behind convent walls for perceived sins of the flesh, and sentenced to a life of servitude in something called the Magdalene laundries.’

As it turns out, the women had been virtual prisoners, confined by the Catholic Church behind convent walls for perceived sins of the flesh, and sentenced to a life of servitude in something called the Magdalene laundries.

It sounds medieval, something that happened hundreds of years ago, but, in fact, the last Magdalene laundry closed just over two years ago. And as the story was firstly reported in 1999, revelations have shocked the Irish people, embarrassed the Catholic Church and tarnished the country's image.

The church was the only authority under which they were held, as Norris explained. "I would have rather been down in the women's jail. At least I would have got a sentence and I would know when I was leaving," she said.

"It's made me feel a horrible, dirty person all my life," McCarthy added, when the two of them walked past the convent.

They were both teenagers when they came here, Norris in the 1950s and McCarthy in the 1960s. Their only crime was appearing to violate the moral code dictated by the church. At that time, it was the church and not the state that was the most powerful force in Ireland. There was no due process and no appeal.

The laundries got their name from Mary Magdalene, the fallen woman who became one of Jesus' closest followers. They began 150 years ago as homes to rehabilitate prostitutes. But by the early 20th century, the role had been expanded to care for unwed mothers and other young women the church considered to be wayward.

The stigma attached to illegitimacy and promiscuity was so severe that the woman was often thrown out of her home, driven from her community, disowned by her family. And for many, the laundries were the only things that stood between them and the street. Although few visual records could be found, some of the massive compounds are still standing.

One of the former Magdalene institutions in Waterford is now a college campus. Niall McElwee, a sociologist who teaches here, has written about the Magdalens.

He said girls could be sent to the institution by different people – parish priests, Catholic curates, family members and sometimes even the girls themselves.

Although some people knew the laundries existed, according to McElwee, what went on behind the convent walls was largely a mystery. It was a place to be feared.

more

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-magdalene-laundry/



february 2013
Ireland finally admits state collusion in Magdalene Laundry system
Taoiseach Enda Kenny fails to formally apologise for involvement over female enslavement causing more outrage

After more than seven decades of exploitation and a 10-year struggle for justice, Ireland on Tuesday admitted its role in the enslavement of thousands of women and girls in the notorious Magdalene Laundry system, but stopped short of issuing a formal apology from the government.

A long-awaited report headed by Senator Martin McAleese said there was "significant state involvement" in how the laundries were run – a reversal of the official state line for years, which insisted the institutions were privately controlled and run by nuns.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/05/ireland-magdalene-laundry-system-apology

[singular_me]

Britain's missing babies: How thousands of children have disappeared from council care in the last two years – and one infant still can't be found

Almost 5,000 children - including babies - disappeared from council care
19 babies have vanished for months at a time, the figures reveal
The statistics, unveiled under FOI, have been called 'alarming' by NSPCC

By Amanda Williams

8 June 2014


Almost 5,000 children - including babies - have disappeared from council care in the past two years, new figures have revealed.

Nineteen babies have vanished for months at a time, and one infant - just a few months old - has still not been found two years later.

The figures have been unveiled under a freedom of information request.
They show that 4,852 looked-after children were reported missing between January 2012 and December 2013, the Sunday Times reports.

There were 24,320 cases logged - as many disappeared more than once. The large majority were teenagers but dozens of those who disappeared were between four and nine years old.

The number includes a one-year-old girl missing since July 2013.
Tom Rahilly, head of strategy for looked-after children at the NSPCC, told the paper: 'When children and young people in care go missing it should be no different to when any other child disappears from home. This is very alarming.'

He said children may disappear because the parent decides to remove them without going through the proper channels, and often teenage mothers in care decide to leave with their child.

The Department for Education said it had improved guidance to councils regarding children missing from care.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651980/Britains-missing-babies-How-Thousands-children-disappeared-council-care-two-years-one-infant-found.html#ixzz34AZEv3rS