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   On 6/20/2025 5:47 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   > https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/world-news/796-dead-babies-found-hidden-in-   
   > septic-tank-at-home-run-by-nuns-dirty-little-secrets/   
   >   
   > Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that   
   > authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead babies and   
   > children who died at a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns.   
   >   
   > Many of the infant remains are feared to have been dumped in the cesspool   
   > known as “the pit” at the former institution in the small town of Tuam,   
   > County Galway, local historian Catherine Corless told Sky News.   
   >   
   > In total, 798 children died at the home between 1925 and its closure in   
   > 1961, of which just two were buried in a nearby cemetery, Corless’   
   > research found.   
   >   
   > The other 796 children’s remains are believed to be under the site of the   
   > Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, which was demolished in 1971 and is now   
   > surrounded by a modern apartment complex.   
   >   
   > Bon Secours, known locally as The Home, was a maternity home for unmarried   
   > mothers and their children, run by a religious order of Catholic nuns.   
   >   
   > Unmarried pregnant women would be sent to the home to give birth and would   
   > be interned for a year to do unpaid work.   
   >   
   > They were separated from their newborn children, who would be raised by   
   > the nuns until they were adopted, often without the consent of their   
   > families.   
   >   
   > The full scale of the tragedy at Bon Secours was only uncovered in 2014   
   > thanks to Corless’s findings.   
   >   
   > Now, finally, more than a decade on, a team of investigators began their   
   > forensic investigation this week.   
   >   
   > It is expected to take up to two years to identify the remains of the   
   > infants and give them a dignified reburial and offer some degree of   
   > closure to survivors.   
   >   
   > “I don’t care if it’s a thimbleful, as they tell me there wouldn’t   
   be much   
   > remains left; at six months old, it’s mainly cartilage more than bone,”   
   > Annette McKay, whose sister is believed to be one of the 798 victims, told   
   > Sky News.   
   >   
   > Her mother, Margaret “Maggie” O’Connor gave birth to a baby, Mary   
   > Margaret, at the home after she was raped at the age of 17.   
   >   
   > The girl died six months later, and her mother only found out when a nun   
   > told her.   
   >   
   > “She was pegging washing out and a nun came up behind her and said ‘the   
   > child of your sin is dead,'” said Annette, who now lives in the UK.   
   >   
   > Bon Secours was just one institution that made up a network of oppression   
   > in Ireland, the true extent of which has only been revealed in recent   
   > years.   
   >   
   > Mothers at Bon Secours who “reoffended” by having more children out of   
   > wedlock would be sent to Magdalene laundries, the infamous Irish   
   > institutions for so-called “fallen women,” usually run by Catholic orders   
   > but quietly supported by the state.   
   >   
   > Originally the term “fallen women” was applied mostly to sex workers, but   
   > the Magdalene laundries would come to take in “seduced” women, victims of   
   > rape and incest, and female orphans or children abandoned or abused by   
   > their families.   
   >   
   > The last of the Magdalene laundries only closed their doors in the 1990s.   
   >   
   > Ireland’s government issued a formal state apology in 2014 and, in 2022, a   
   > compensation scheme was set up which has so far paid out the equivalent of   
   > $32.7 million to 814 survivors.   
   >   
   > The religious orders that operated many of the laundries have rejected   
   > appeals from victims and Ireland’s Justice Minister to contribute to the   
   > program.   
   >   
   >   
       Nothing can compensate for this kind of evil.   
      
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