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5 July 2016

Ireland’s generation of stolen children deserve to know who they are

All of us stolen babies of the catholic church orphanages worldwide... need to know our birth rights... we were called orphans from the time we could walk and talk... but we were not orphans... we were stolen from our mother's arms... by St. Vincent De' Paul... who were working for the catholic church... our mother had no say... they could not fight the catholic church alone... there neesd to be an apology... from the catholic church worldwide... to us men and women... who were stolen from our mothers... I hear and see about the mothers... but what about us babies who were stolen right out of our mother's arms... there is so much more I want to say... sorry but I can not... it is too upsetting for me...  Ann
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IF we did not deprive them of life, we deprived them of their identity. That is the hard truth about our relationship with “illegitimate” children which Stephen Frears’s film Philomena makes us face.
Some years we killed half of the “illegitimate” babies we got our hands on. In 1930, the year the Sean Ross Mother and Baby Home opened in Roscrea, 60 babies died out of a total of 120. That’s an infant mortality rate of 50%, more than four times higher than in the general population.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/victoria-white/irelands-generation-of-stolen-children-deserve-to-know-who-they-are-248731.html