The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home is notorious for the hundreds
of babies and children who died there. Katie Grant meets a group of
former “Home Babies” who suffered unimaginable hardships and are
determined to expose the truth about the church-run institutions
Marie* beams with pride as she describes her two adult children.
Unlike her, they were well-educated, could read and write by the time
they started nursery and grew up showered with love and affection. Her
joy is plain to see. But the 64-year-old Irish émigré has been keeping a
secret their entire lives. Marie was born in the Bon Secours Mother and
Baby Home, an institution for unmarried mothers, and suffered years of
abuse at the convent-run orphanage where she resided.