In Donnybrook, Future of Crumbling Magdalene Laundry Is Uncertain

When she arrived at the Donnybrook laundry, Sara was given a number and told to remember it. The number 100. This was her new identity.
In her survivor testimony for Justice for Magdalenes’ (JFM’s) submission to the Inter-Departmental Committee set up to investigate state involvement in the Magdalene laundries, Sara W described the conditions in the Donnybrook laundry between 1954 and 1956, before she was moved to another Magdalene laundry, in Cork.

http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/03/09/in-donnybrook-future-of-crumbling-magdalene-laundry-is-uncertain/

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Concern over possible falsification of Bessborough death records raised in 2012

Concerns that death records were falsified in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home so children could “be brokered in clandestine adoption arrangements” at home and abroad were raised in an internal HSE report in 2012.
The unpublished report highlighted the “wholly epidemic” infant deaths rates at the Cork home and said: “The question whether indeed all of these children actually died while in Bessboro or whether they were brokered into clandestine adoption arrangements, both foreign and domestic, has dire implications for the Church and State and not least for the children and families themselves.”

https://conallofatharta.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/special-investigation-concern-about-falsification-of-bessborough-death-records-raised-in-2012/ 

Order reported 80 more infant deaths to State than were on death register

The religious order that ran the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home reported significantly higher numbers of infant deaths to state inspectors than it recorded privately.
An Irish Examiner investigation can reveal that between March 31, 1939, and December 5, 1944, Department of Local Government and Public Health (DLGPH) inspector Alice Litster was informed that 353 infant deaths occurred at the institution. The figures are contained in a inspection report from 1944 obtained by this newspaper. However, the Bessborough Death Register, released under Freedom of Information, reveals the nuns recorded just 273 infant deaths in this period — a discrepancy of 80.

https://conallofatharta.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/order-reported-80-more-infant-deaths-to-state-than-were-on-death-register/ 

Grave situation: Deaths at Bessborough don’t add up

Religious order reported to the State that 353 babies died in Bessborough, but its own register showed 80 fewer deaths. A report found a system of ‘human trafficking’ in which ‘women and babies were considered little more than a commodity for trade’. Conall Ó Fatharta reports
THE revelation that the order which operated the Bessborough Mother and Baby home was reporting higher numbers of infant deaths to the State than it recorded in its own death register raises some serious questions So far, the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary have declined to offer any answers. The order says it will only deal with the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. It can only be hoped that Judge Yvonne Murphy can get some answers. It is imperative she does.

https://conallofatharta.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/grave-situation-deaths-at-bessborough-dont-add-up/ 

Column: We must stop claiming that ‘we never knew’ about child abuse at Catholic institutions

This article was originally published 26 October 2012
OVER THE PAST two decades the issue of child abuse has dominated the Irish political agenda. Harrowing as the various reports have been Irish society has yet to deal with one of the most challenging and complex aspects of the abuse; how much did wider society in Ireland know?
A frequent response to this question has been that the vast majority of people never knew about child abuse until the 1990s. This does not hold up to scrutiny. Historians such as Diarmaid Ferriter have have pointed out that evidence in newspapers, court reports and government files indicate many people on all levels of society had varying degrees of knowledge of the abuse of children.

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-we-must-stop-claiming-that-we-never-knew-about-child-abuse-649607-Jun2014/

Residential School Survior Stories

The following is a selection of Survivor stories drawn from the Our Stories…Our Strength video collection. We are grateful to the men and women who have shared their personal and often painful accounts of their experiences of residential school and its legacy. It is by sharing these truths that we can all continue to work toward understanding and healing.
Please contact us info@legacyofhope.ca if you are a Survivor who participated in the Our Stories…Our Strength project and would like to have your video posted on this site. If your story appears here and you would like it removed from the site or the collection, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@legacyofhope.ca

http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/stories/

Protest focuses on nuns in abuse

Members of an advocacy group for victims of clergy abuse told their stories Sunday in Chicago about being sexually molested by nuns.
Landa Mauriello-Vernon, the Connecticut director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), said the group, which passed out leaflets about the issue outside a Catholic church on the South Side and held a private meeting with representatives of women's religious orders, wants the public to know that some nuns have sexually abused children.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-04/news/0410040129_1_nuns-abuse-sexually 

Woman sues order of nuns for alleged '60s sex abuse

Women who say Roman Catholic sisters molested them as children asked Cardinal Francis George Tuesday to address their plight, saying the attention paid to abusive priests has overshadowed problems involving nuns.
The request stems from a lawsuit filed Tuesday against a religious order, alleging that one of its sisters repeatedly molested the plaintiff, Christine Bertrand, between 1962 and 1967 when she was a student at St. Juliana School in Chicago.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-01/news/0506010339_1_religious-orders-nuns-abuse 

New nun child sex abuse case in Belgium

it is still coming out... about nuns raping children... it is just never ending... yes NUNS and WOMEN rape children boys and girls... Ann

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Belgian prosecutors on Tuesday said they had opened a judicial inquiry after a fresh claim of sexual abuse in an institution for children run by nuns.
The latest probe follows a claim by a 63-year Belgian man to have been the target of sexual abuse in the 1950s in the Sint-Vincentius de Halen orphanage in the northeast region of Limbourg.

http://bhcourier.com/new-nun-child-sex-abuse-case-in-belgium/ 

Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories

THIS weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. On September 25 1996, Ireland’s final laundry, which was located on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin and run by the Sisters of Our Lady, closed its doors for good.
While it’s not known for definite, it’s estimated that 10,000 women were institutionalised in laundries since the foundation of the Irish state in 1922.  The Irish Post reported in 2013 that the majority of laundry survivors escaped to Britain, for fear they’d be caught and incarcerated again.

http://irishpost.co.uk/magdalene-laundries-20-years-since-last-laundry-closed-ireland-five-survivors-tell-stories/ 

Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia – a first of its kind urban history documentary

History Making Productions, the Philadelphia-based EMMY award winning documentary film production company behind Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, has produced a new documentary film, Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia. The film is presented in three 26-minute chapters.

Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia will broadcast exclusively on 6abc/WPVI-TV. Parts one and two aired back to back last night, September 22. Part three will air on Sunday, September 27th at Midnight, after Pope Francis’ departure from Philadelphia.

http://ucreview.com/urban-trinity-the-story-of-catholic-philadelphia-a-first-of-its-kind-urb-p5945-1.htm#.VgNDYmdeqLg.facebook 

Nun placed on leave after abuse allegation

A Dominican nun who has served in five parishes in Greater Boston for the past 34 years has been placed on leave after being accused of sexual misconduct with a fifth-grade girl in an Indiana classroom 40 years ago.
Sister Ann Daylor, 67, director of religious education at St. Mary's Church in Georgetown in northeastern Massachusetts, appears to be the first nun to be removed for such an allegation this year. About 300 priests nationwide have been removed this year because of sexual abuse allegations.

http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/111402_nun.htm 

Years later, some charge sexual abuse by nuns

A half-century after his Catholic school boyhood, John Kerrigan says he is still haunted by the memories: a figure draped in the mantle of the church, finding sexual gratification through his fearful 12-year-old body.
Though his story echoes countless others in the ever-widening church molestation scandal, it differs in that the alleged abuser was not a priest. Rather, it was a nun.

http://www.robinwashington.com/articles/articles_nuns.html 

Torture, Assassinations, Vaccine Trial, Child TraffickingConducted By Nuns Around The World

If you research nuns and their various religious orders, you will find the hypocrite values theyclaim to uphold. There is the Sisters of Mercy who claim to stand for love.The torture, assassinations, human experiments, child trafficking and organ trafficking they havemanaged to cover up for decades is now coming to light

https://www.scribd.com/doc/53545205/Torture-Assassinations-Vaccine-Trials-Child-Trafficking-Conducted-By-Nuns-Around-The-World 

Father Delaney Collection: Magdalene Laundry

One of the most notable of Father Delaney’s films was made on the grounds of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Convent  – a convent which housed a Magdalene Laundry – which closed its doors in 1999.
In the film we see the nuns and residents playing games in the garden, as well as performing in a play and dancing. Though the film is short but is the most extensive footage that is known to have been filmed inside a Magdalene Institution. The film is invaluable for the information it provides on the residents. some of whom were classed as “fallen“ women,  held here against their will as punishment for some perceived misdemeanour such as sexual  promiscuity or extra-marital pregnancy.  The images show what the women wore, how they played, how they relate to each other, the nuns and to the filmmaker, a priest.

http://ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/ 

What’s Religious about the Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests and Nuns?

Scholars analyze Catholic Church Abuse and Tools to promote Accountability

​ HARTFORD, CT, March 20, 2012 – Sexual abuse of children, while not exclusive to the Catholic Church, may be more widely prevalent due to the doctrine and practices of Catholicism, according to Robert Orsi ’75, Professor of Religion and the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, and Terry McKiernan, founder and president of BishopAccountability.com. 

http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/Abuse-of-Children-by-Priests-and-Nuns.aspx

The stolen children: Abuse scandals, thefts of newborns contribute to increased distrust in Chilean church

Santiago, Chile  Officials in Santiago, Chile, are investigating a series of cases in which newborn babies were purportedly stolen from the poor and given to the rich over many years' time, mostly in the 1970s through the '90s. At least half a dozen Catholic sisters and one of the country's most popular priests have been implicated in these long-hidden crimes. The following is the final article in a three-part series that looks at how this appropriation of children happened and how it stayed secret for so long. Read part one and part two.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/stolen-children-abuse-scandals-thefts-newborns-contribute-increased-distrust 

Adoption case study: ‘It’s a tragedy I wasn’t given my birth cert’

I don't know how many times I tried... to look for my mother in New Zealand... each time they blocked it... saying my mother was dead... or that they could not find her... why were there so many lies told to us... they changed my name... and left me with a number 61...
you think that it does not hurt... not knowing that your mother was so close... and yet not to be able to call her... your mother... as a child that was all that I wanted... a mother to hold me... a mother to run to...  Ann

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David Kinsella was illegitimate child number 1629 at St Patrick’s mother-and-baby home in the late 1950s.

For years, it was the only information he had about his identity. His request for information about his birth mother ran into brick walls of State-sanctioned secrecy.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/adoption-case-study-it-s-a-tragedy-i-wasn-t-given-my-birth-cert-1.2299062?fb_action_ids=10205261757568843&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.VgDkEQmXEhQ.like 

Irish Adoption Bill surpasses expectations of mother and baby home survivors

Ireland is to allow thousands of adopted people access to their records for the first time in new legislation proposed by Irish Children’s Minister James Reilly.

Under international law, adopted people have the right to establish their identity but until now, people adopted in Ireland, including those sent for adoption in secret or illegally through an Irish Catholic institution, have had no automatic right to their birth records or access to services that will allow them to trace their family history.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/irish-adoption-bill-surpasses-expectations-of-mother-and-baby-home-survivors 

Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission

T. IGNATIUS - The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains. "I want to be here," says Garry "Bob" Salois, "the day an earthquake brings this place down."

Its 58 striking frescoes, painted by an Italian Jesuit who was self-taught, include a life-size image of St. George slaying a dragon with a hideous human face.  "The dragon's face," says Francis "Franny" Burke, "should be Mother Loyola."

http://missoulian.com/news/local/anguish-has-never-healed-for-natives-physically-sexually-abused-at/article_69bdf266-8f27-11e0-aa65-001cc4c002e0.html 

See How The Nun Brutally Abusing A Sick Child

See how the nuns caring for disabled children in a nursing home in City Studzieniczna in Poland -near Citu Augustow in Poland. For the media 15.10.2009 got a video recorded by tourists, where you can see, like a nun brutally abusing a sick child.
The DPS Studzieniczna lives in 50 children with cerebral palsy, Down's disease, autism, physical disability. Base leads Congregation of Franciscan Sisters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpE1slmw0Q 

Images to console sexual abuse victims

Today, the National Survivors Advocates Coalition feels the need to present images that we hope will console abuse survivors and their families and combat the onslaught of images of Pope Francis streaming across television screens.
Judy Jones, John Pilmaier, Joelle Casteix, Sister Maureen Turlish, Becky Ianni, and David Lorenz have taken to the streets in strong and determined witness of the truth. To speak for survivors. To banish the “it’s history” approach of the hierarchy and its pontiff.

https://cruxnow.com/papal-visit/2015/09/27/images-to-console-sexual-abuse-victims/ 

Child sex abuse inquiry: Rockhampton priest 'raped me well over 100 times',

A witness at a child sex abuse inquiry says she was raped "well over 100 times" by a priest at St Joseph's Neerkol Orphanage Rockhampton in central Queensland.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard the treatment of children at the orphanage was "vicious and sadistic", while an earlier inquiry found hundreds of children were sexually abused, beaten and forced into hard labour there.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-14/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-neerkol-orphanage-rockhampton/6391002 

Why are Catholic Nuns so mean?

Iam writting a family book about our family from as far back as I can go. One of the questions I have is for the Catholics of the forums. Why are Nuns so mean? My grandmother, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles cousins ect ect, were mostly raised in the Cotholic Missions on different Indian Reservations. The one thing that I have found from talking to them and from past stories they have told me before they died was the Nuns of the Caotholic Missions were always mean and abusive to the children. My Grandmother has told me many stories of the evil nuns.
 One that stands out is the story of a boy who had become very ill. I don't think my grandma knew exactly what he was sick with but she told me that the Nuns had NO empathy for a sick child. The mission had boys dorm and girls dorm and behind the dorms outside was a small creek that ran behind the buildings and through the woods. The Nuns had been punishing this boy for not doing his chores and on that fateful night he was murdered by the Nuns. The Mother Teressa took him to the creek behind the dorms and drug him through the cold water until he died. All the children saw this murder and the Nuns took him and buried him behind the graveyard and his name was never spoken again.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/199186-why-are-catholic-nuns-so-mean/ 

Children at Derry care homes were made to eat vomit, inquiry told

Children were forced to eat their own vomit and bathe in disinfectant at residential care homes run by nuns, the UK's largest public inquiry into institutional child abuse was told on Monday.
During evidence on the behaviour of nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth order at two Catholic church-run children's homes in Derry, the inquiry heard that children were beaten for bedwetting and had soiled sheets placed on their heads to humiliate them.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/27/children-derry-care-homes-inquiry 

Former resident of Belfast children's home describes 'sadistic' nuns

Some Catholic nuns at a children’s home in the North were sadistic bullies, a former resident has claimed.
A “bleak, harsh and cruel” atmosphere was described by alleged victims at two properties in Belfast run by the Sisters of Nazareth Order, a lawyer told a public inquiry.  More than 100 witnesses from Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge have come forward to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, headed by a former judge.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/former-resident-of-belfast-childrens-home-describes-sadistic-nuns-656784.html

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2011 – Laundry, by Louise Lowe

By staging her play in a former Magdalene laundry the playwright compels the audience to inhabit the haunted spaces of Irish history.  As a child growing up in Dublin’s north inner city Louise Lowe was warned by her mother that if she was bold she’d end up in the Gloucester Street Magdalene laundry. 

And Lowe did eventually end up in the laundry building on what is now Sean McDermott Street, formally known as the Monastery of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge. Just a few minutes’ walk from O’Connell Street, it closed in 1996 but is inert and intact, a looming relic of a system of mass incarceration. In 2011 Lowe and her collaborators at Anu Productions occupied the building to create one of the most powerful pieces of contemporary Irish theatre, Laundry.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-2011-laundry-by-louise-lowe-1.2793624 

When Silence Falls

The Waterford Memories Project and the School of Humanities at W.I.T. invite you to ‘When Silence Falls’, a public event taking place at the College Street Campus, Waterford Institute of Technology. This event will commemorate the former site of St Mary’s Good Shepherd Laundry and St. Dominic’s Industrial School, and the women and children who were contained in these spaces. 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/when-silence-falls-tickets-22652196329?aff=es2 

Call over submissions on Mother and Baby Homes

Advocacy groups assisting people affected by Ireland's treatment of unmarried mothers and their children have urged the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to be proactive in inviting submissions to its key investigation committee.
Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA) say they have discovered that people who thought they had made a submission for the purpose of the commission's investigation had in fact just met with the body's confidential committee.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0728/805544-mother-and-baby-homes-commission/ 

Priest, nuns and scoutmaster ‘abused boys’ at children’s home

Three nuns, a priest and a scoutmaster were complicit in “brutalising” boys at a Catholic home in the grip of a “cruel and vindictive regime”, a court has heard. 
Details of the alleged goings on at St Francis children’s home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, were aired publicly in the trial of former carer James McCann. McCann, 80, is accused of 52 charges of violent and sexual assault on 26 boys aged between eight and 12 in the 1960s and 70s.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/priest-nuns-and-scoutmaster-abused-boys-at-children-s-home-1-4228162

McCann, 80, is accused of 52 charges of violent and sexual assault on 26 boys aged between eight and 12 in the 1960s and 70s.

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/priest-nuns-and-scoutmaster-abused-boys-at-children-s-home-1-4228162

They Promised Heaven But Led Me To Hell.

They Promised Heaven

But Led Me To Hell

 

Years In Two Catholic Orphanages
Left their Hidden Scars 

 

I wish to thank every one who said no to me
Because of them I did it myself

 

My. book goes to the publishers next Friday... I can not wait until it is printed... I want people to know the TRUTH... about what happened to us, in the catholic church orphanages

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They Promised Heaven But Led Me To Hell.  Years In Two Catholic Orphanages Left their Hidden Scars I wish to thank every one who said no to me Because of them I did it myself My. book goes to the publishers next Friday... I can not wait until it is printed... I want people to know the TRUTH... about what happened to us, in the catholic church orphanage.

 I was conceived out of wedlock, because of my mother being raped at fifteen years old. I was just two and a half months old when I was taken from my mother’s arms, by the catholic church then placed in the care of one of their Catholic orphanage. From the beginning, I was taught that my mother was sinful and that I would be too unless the devil was beaten from my soul. 

I was sexual abused in the nursery from a tiny young girl of eighteen months old by three lady workers for four years. My childhood abuse in the orphanage, is New Zealand’s shameful, dirty secret of physical, mental and sexual abuse of innocent children by nuns, lay staff, the older girls and the priest and bullying at two orphanages in Christchurch New Zealand. 

From the age of five years old I was made to work on their farm and later on in their kitchen and laundries, both at Mount Magdala – St. Joseph Girls Orphanage and Nazareth House. At night times three nuns would ritual attack me by taking my clothes off, tying me to both ends of the bed and savagely attacking me with the buckle of her belt, hula hoop cut in half and a large whip as they tried to suppress my well and to break my spirit. 

They Promised Heaven is also about my fight with the catholic church to accept responsibility for the past institutionalized abuse of children and young people while in their care and to admit – unconditionally – that there was wrong doing by the two order of nuns and the priest.

It is a story which needs to be heard and to read, I have told of the horrific upbringing in two catholic orphanages. In 1997, when I watched a Prime Television documentary exposing the decades of abuse by the Good Shepherd nuns at the Christchurch orphanage, I realized then mine wasn't the only lost childhood. 

My name will not likely be familiar to most New Zealanders but my story is one that all will be shocked to read about. Whilst unbelievable that such acts of cruelty happened in New Zealand by nuns, They Promised Heaven, But Led me to Hell... also portrays my great strength of spirit and determination. I am a mother of four and I have lived in Whangarei for the past fifty years, with my husband Brian. 

My story is one story of many worldwide... Ann 

The Church’s Lingering Shadows on Sex Work in Ireland

The Magdalene Laundries cast a long, dark shadow over the relationship many Irish women have with sex, transforming it into something shameful and guilt-ridden. While the last laundry closed in 1996, this shadow remains and is kept alive by a powerful force: Ruhama, an organisation for women affected by sex work.
Sex remains something of a dirty concept in Irish society. Though it is in the margins of discourse, it is at the centre of most people’s minds. Why is it, in an age of hyper-sexuality, that Catholic sexual teaching still permeates national school sex education? Why is it that such teaching features in our government’s policy in both overt and covert ways? Why is it that, Ruhama, a state-funded organisation, is made up of the same groups that ran the Magdalene Laundries?

http://www.universitytimes.ie/2016/04/the-churchs-lingering-shadows-on-sex-work-in-ireland/?doing_wp_cron=1473427113.8833920955657958984375 

Orphans died because nuns didn't want them seen in nightgowns

The worst thing for a child... is being alone... no one to care for you... no one to take your hand... and tell you that they care... No one to trust.. no one to call a friend.. no one to talk to... no one to play with... The child stays by herself... in a corner... so as no one notice them... They give all they have... to other children.. so as some one will like them... which leaves them open... to more bullying.. No mater what they do... trying to get some one... to take notice of them... their first thought... is to find some where... where they feel safe...
Please do not turn away from a child... you see or hear... that you know who needs help... because that child... will always remember... the person who helped them... An abused child... or a child... who is being bullied... remembers the kind words... remembers the hand... which is held out to them,,. Don't turn away... because one day... that child could be your child...  Ann

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NICOLA TALLANT THIRTY-five orphans who perished in a blaze in Cavan more than 60 years ago were locked into their dormitories as the fire raged because nuns didn't want them seen in their nightgowns.
The shocking claims are made in a new TV documentary which investigates the fire at St Joseph's Orphanage in 1943. One of the 50 children who were rescued claims that the children were ordered to say the Rosary as the fire spread from the laundry to the second and third floors of the building.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/orphans-died-because-nuns-didnt-want-them-seen-in-nightgowns-26418353.html 

Clean break for old laundry

A property investment group plans to demolish a former Magdalene laundry in Dublin 4 and replace it with 25 luxury apartments.
The Pembroke Partnership is seeking permission to demolish all the buildings at the former Donnybrook laundry apart from a distinctive chimney stack, which is a protected structure. The group wants to construct a four-storey block with four one-bedroom apartments, 13 two-bed units and eight three-beds.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/clean-break-for-old-laundry-b8shgndx8 

Irish in Britain “failed” by Caranua and Irish institutional abuse fund says victims’ campaigner

A CAMPAIGNER for British-based Irish survivors of industrial abuse says Caranua, the body set up to help them, is failing survivors in the UK.
Simon McCarthy, a support worker for victims in the Midlands, says Caranua has failed to “address the overwhelming disparity” between Irish-based and Britain-based victims.

http://irishpost.co.uk/irish-in-britain-failed-by-caranua-and-irish-institutional-abuse-fund-says-victims-campaigner/ 

Concern over possible falsification of Bessborough death records raised in 2012

Concerns that death records were falsified in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home so children could “be brokered in clandestine adoption arrangements” at home and abroad were raised in an internal HSE report in 2012.
The unpublished report highlighted the “wholly epidemic” infant deaths rates at the Cork home and said: “The question whether indeed all of these children actually died while in Bessboro or whether they were brokered into clandestine adoption arrangements, both foreign and domestic, has dire implications for the Church and State and not least for the children and families themselves.”

https://conallofatharta.wordpress.com/ 

Irish Protestant mother and baby homes also saw neglect and high mortalities

To be poor and the child of a single mother were among the most dangerous things that could happen to you in the Ireland of the last century.

So dangerous, in fact, that now we have a Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, established in February 2015, to find out exactly what happened to the thousands of vulnerable women and children who lived and died in 14 homes between 1922 and 1998.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/Irish-Protestant-mother-baby-homes-saw-neglecthigh-mortalities.html 

Irish First Mothers on 'Today' with Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio1

Members of Irish First Mothers who who were once incarcerated in Mother and Baby homes spoke with Brian O'Connell for the RTE1 Radio show 'Today', with Sean O'Rourke.
The women are members of Ireland's largest representative group of such mother's., They were attending the Irish First Mothers 2016 Conference in Dunboyne Castle Hotel on 27th August, 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBSbstzt7Y&feature=share

Wendy Lyon Speaks at IFM Dunboyne 2016

Wendy Lyon of KOD Lyons Solicitors addresses the Irish First Mothers Conference in Dunboyne Castle Hotel on 27th August, 2016. She speaks about the Irish Government's Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes and human rights issues.
Wendy holds a BA in Political Science from the State University of New York and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College Dublin. Her essay “Client Criminalisation and Sex Workers’ Right to Health”, was acclaimed by Justice Michael Peart and she has acted for a number of women in historical abuse cases, including symphysiotomy, illegal adoption and Magdalene laundries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0kYT32Rnug&feature=share&list=PLiY2m53pWdLfQUkINfAX-lRsrATQaphus