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6 March 2017

I ended up in hospital covered in scabs' - abuse survivor Rosemary Adaser on life in a mother-and-baby home

Rosemary Adaser spoke about the abuse she suffered growing up mixed-race in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes and industrial schools.
Ms Adaser was born to an Irish mother, who worked as a telephonist at Dublin's Rotunda Hospital, and a black Ghanaian father, who worked as a doctor there. Shortly after her birth, her mother was forced to place her in St Clare's Convent in Stamullen, Co Meath.