Nearly 800 dead babies found in septic tank in Ireland

Remains found near a former orphanage for the children of unwed mothers that operated until 1961

June 3, 2014 6:41PM ET

The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing fresh accusations of child abuse after a researcher found records for 796 young children allegedly buried in a mass grave beside a former orphanage for the children of unwed mothers.

The researcher, Catherine Corless, says her discovery of child death records at the Catholic nun-run home in Tuam, County Galway, suggests that the former septic tank filled with bones is the final resting place for most, if not all, of the children.

Church leaders in Galway, western Ireland, said they had no idea so many children who died at the orphanage had been buried there, and said they would support local efforts to mark the spot with a plaque listing all 796 children.

Al jazeera

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Comment by Less Prone on June 5, 2014 at 6:34pm: The story of creation; God creates the universe, animals and humans. Ideas of God arise in the minds of people who cannot explain natural phenomena, sun and the moon and the stars and death among others. Some clever sociopaths start to develop these ideas to define the unseen in order to maintain control of the others, religion is born. Isn't it absurd how the worst of the worst took over to abuse us based on fairy tales and myths?

Observe the picture and think about what you really see.

What about humanity humiliated, tortured and murdered bleeding a river of blood in the name of the light bearer, Sun or Lucifer.

Comment by Tara on June 5, 2014 at 6:08pm: What evil shit and all done in the name of 'God'? I try not to disparage anyone for their religious belief's but damn... so much evil stuff is done because of religion. It has been used as a tool to manipulate, subjugate and control humanity throughout the ages. And many a human has been brutally killed for not toeing the religious line in the sand.

I believe in 'God' but I will never believe in a man, proclaiming that he is doing the will of 'God'. Who died and made you 'King'... not the 'God' that I have come to know.

Comment by Less Prone on June 5, 2014 at 4:52am: Ireland finally says sorry to the 10,000 'Magdalene Sister slaves' of its Catholic workhouses who were locked up and brutalised by nuns

"10,000 young Irish girls were sent to the laundries between 1922 and 1996."
"Orphans with nowhere else to go, single girls who found themselves pregnant and hence abandoned in a morally repressive state, children whose parents could no longer afford to keep them and those judged by priests or the religious to be in 'moral danger' because they were too pretty or flirtatious. Women were forced into Magdalene laundries for a crime as minor as not paying for a train ticket."

Link to Daily Mail article

The Magdalene sisters film