A previously unpublished report by the HSE in 2012 examined
Bessborough’s own records. The in-depth findings and conclusions are
damning. Conall Ó Fátharta reports FOR years, places like Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were spoken of in hushed tones.
For generations of Irish people, they were places where thousands of women and girls were sent when they had “a problem”. They went in pregnant and came out alone, some after spending years locked away. Some left only to be moved to other institutions and Magdalene laundries. Most were never the same. Their voices were never heard.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/special-investigation-bessborough-mother-and-baby-home-its-time-these-womens-voices-are-finally-heard-334069.html
For generations of Irish people, they were places where thousands of women and girls were sent when they had “a problem”. They went in pregnant and came out alone, some after spending years locked away. Some left only to be moved to other institutions and Magdalene laundries. Most were never the same. Their voices were never heard.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/special-investigation-bessborough-mother-and-baby-home-its-time-these-womens-voices-are-finally-heard-334069.html