Tuam: Women were just “ignorant creatures full of nothing but sin and misery”

and that was just how the nuns treated us innocent babies and children... we were doomed from the day our mothers... were taken to the catholic church hospital for unwed mothers...
All the mothers and babies suffering because of the greed of the nuns... the catholic church and also the governments... they were all in on the selling of babies... I don't know how most of us unwanted babies of the catholic church survived... I know that we were kept alive so as we could tell our stories to the world... the things we had to do... to prove that we loved god... they were sinful... they were very painful... and the pain upon pain... which we were already suffering... in god's and Jesus name... while we were called the devil's daughters... it was a life of FEAR... while they had the power and control over us children... Ann

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If you need to know how Tuam babies cases happened look no further than the attitude of the Irish church to women in the 20th century.  It is fair to say the attitude was there among Protestant clergy too, given there were similar horrific deaths in the Protestant Bethany Home, where 222 babies and children died.
Women, especially poor or uneducated ones, were mere chattels of men, incapable of intelligent thought. Certainly, they should never be allowed to vote. In 1909 Father David Barry wrote the following in a magazine called Irish Ecclesiastical Record:

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