Anne Biggs was banished by Catholic Church to US at the age of four

An author is using her real-life story of being banished to the U.S. by the Irish Church as the basis for an upcoming novel.

Anne Biggs’ mother was only fourteen when she was raped, sent to a home and force to sign documents for her daughter’s release. Biggs, who was born in County Westmeath in 1949, was sent to St Patrick’s Home in Dublin, which secretly exported 254 Irish children to the U.S. for adoption from the 1940s to the 70s. Biggs was adopted and sent to America at the age of four.

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