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"Jumble Of Bones": The Haunting Tale Of Ireland's Newly Discovered 'Baby Grave'
Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic order of nuns, ran an institute for expectant and young mothers and orphans. Investigations into the institute found the remains of 800 infants in a former septic tank.
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How 796 Babies Were Secretly Dumped In Septic Tanks By Nuns In Ireland
A woman whose sister was among the estimated 796 newborns secretly dumped in a septic tank beneath the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, has just one mission - to give her a dignified burial.
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796 Babies Buried Under Shelter Home For Unmarried, Pregnant Women
Unmarried pregnant women were sent to Bon Secours Home run by a group of Catholic nuns, who used to take care of both the children and the mothers.
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Decades-Old Mass Grave Of Children Of Unwed Mothers Confirmed In Ireland
Between 1925 and the 1960s, in a tiny town called Tuam in western Ireland's County Galway, thousands of "fallen women" and their "illegitimate" children passed through the Mother and Baby Home operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours.
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"Jumble Of Bones": The Haunting Tale Of Ireland's Newly Discovered 'Baby Grave'
Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic order of nuns, ran an institute for expectant and young mothers and orphans. Investigations into the institute found the remains of 800 infants in a former septic tank.
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How 796 Babies Were Secretly Dumped In Septic Tanks By Nuns In Ireland
A woman whose sister was among the estimated 796 newborns secretly dumped in a septic tank beneath the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, has just one mission - to give her a dignified burial.
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796 Babies Buried Under Shelter Home For Unmarried, Pregnant Women
Unmarried pregnant women were sent to Bon Secours Home run by a group of Catholic nuns, who used to take care of both the children and the mothers.
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Decades-Old Mass Grave Of Children Of Unwed Mothers Confirmed In Ireland
Between 1925 and the 1960s, in a tiny town called Tuam in western Ireland's County Galway, thousands of "fallen women" and their "illegitimate" children passed through the Mother and Baby Home operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours.
