The discovery of mass child graves in Tuam, Ireland last month has
reportedly exposed the Catholic Church's long history of abuse targeting
unmarried mothers who marred society's conservative image.
Amateur historian Catherine Corless' discovery of the 796 children who died in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 stemmed from her childhood memories of some of the skinny kids from the same Catholic establishment, a number of whom attended the same school she did but were distant from the others. She told Reuters that she was struck that none of those dead children had records in local cemeteries, so she spent many years trying to find out what happened to the kids born out of wedlock who lived in those places.
http://www.christiandaily.com/article/discovery-of-mass-child-graves-in-ireland-exposes-churchs-history-of-abuse/60198.htm
Amateur historian Catherine Corless' discovery of the 796 children who died in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 stemmed from her childhood memories of some of the skinny kids from the same Catholic establishment, a number of whom attended the same school she did but were distant from the others. She told Reuters that she was struck that none of those dead children had records in local cemeteries, so she spent many years trying to find out what happened to the kids born out of wedlock who lived in those places.
http://www.christiandaily.com/article/discovery-of-mass-child-graves-in-ireland-exposes-churchs-history-of-abuse/60198.htm
