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Comment by Parrhesia on May 26, 2019 at 3:45pm

This is only the tip of the iceberg.  

"Four years after the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, the focus of its investigation has clearly moved away from Tuam and onto other headline-generating institutions like Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

We now know that more than 900 children died in Bessborough or in hospital after being transferred from Bessborough.

Despite very extensive inquiries and searches, the Commission has been able to establish the burial place of only 64 children. The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who owned and ran Bessborough do not know where the other children are buried."...

"With the focus widening, the spotlight has now turned to Bessborough Mother and Baby Home – the second largest institution of its type. To date, it has the highest infant mortality rate recorded at any Mother and Baby Home – 82% in 1944."

They also used these children for vaccine trials.

www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/focus-of-mother-a...