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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 21309911" data-attributes="member: 218596">Nuns in Ireland buried babies and children in mass grave<img src="http://www.thenational.ae/storyimage/AB/20170304/ARTICLE/170309630/AR/0/&NCS_modified=20170304201229&MaxW=640&imageVersion=default&AR-170309630.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />engineers  A file photo from 6 June 2014 of engineers using ground  penetrating radar at the site of a mass grave of up to 800 children at  the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, in western  Ireland, on June 6, 2014. On March 3, 2017, the Mother and Baby Homes  Commission revealed human remains were found in 20 underground chambers.DUBLIN - Women’s groups are calling for other Catholic-run  former homes for unmarried mothers to be investigated after a mass grave  containing the remains of dozens of babies and young children was  discovered at one such home.Roman Catholic religious orders ran  homes for unmarried pregnant girls until well into the 1990s all over  Ireland. The young women sent to them often suffered harsh treatment at  the hands of the nuns who believed sex outside marriage was a mortal  sin.The coalition of mother and baby home survivors called the shocking discovery of the mass grave "the tip of the iceberg."Nearly  800 children died at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in the town  of Tuam, in western Ireland, according to death certificates discovered  by a local historian, Catherine Corless. The home was one of several  throughout strongly Catholic Ireland.Run by the Bon Secours order  of nuns, the Tuam home opened in 1925 and closed in 1961. The  "significant quantities" of remains were found in 17 out of 20  underground chambers that were examined. The investigators established  the chambers were originally used to treat sewage.While the deaths of these children were not suspicious, the casual disposal of their bodies has horrified the country."Today  is about remembering and respecting the dignity of the children who  lived their short lives in this home," Katherine Zappone, Ireland’s  minister for children and youth affairs, said in a statement on Friday.  "We will honour their memory and make sure that we take the right  actions now to treat their remains appropriately."No  record exists of the number of women who passed through the home during  the time it was open. The nuns would help deliver the babies, who would  then be brought up elsewhere until they could be adopted. But  the babies and children who died at the home were buried in these  crypt-like chambers. Investigators said that DNA analysis confirmed that  the discovered remains were of children between the ages of 35 weeks  and three years. "It’s horrific what they did," Ms Corless said.After  it closed in 1961, the home lay vacant until it was demolished in 1972  to make way for a new housing estate. The first signs of the mass grave  were spotted in 1975 when two young boys, playing in a field on the old  site of the home found skeletons inside a hollow covered by a concrete  slab. But no investigation was conducted at the time. Ms Corless,  who works on her family’s farm, was familiar with the town’s stories  about child deaths the home, but she could find no records documenting  their burials. In  2011, she began to source death certificates for every child who had  died at the home, paying four euros (Dh15) to the country registry  office for each certificate copy. In total, she procured 796  certificates and they revealed the children had died of measles,  tuberculosis, pneumonia, or simply malnutrition. With other  townsfolk Ms Corless began to raise money to erect a memorial for the  children who had died at the home. As the story gathered attention, the  Irish government in 2014 appointed a Mother and Baby Homes commission to  investigate other such homes across the country. The  Bon Secours order, which is still operational and now runs hospitals  issued a statement following the commission’s revelations. "On  the closing of the home in 1961, all the records for the home were  returned to Galway County Council, who are the owners and occupiers of  the lands of the home," the statement said. "We can therefore make no  comment on today’s announcement, other than to confirm our continued  cooperation with and support for the work of the commission in seeking  the truth about the home."P J Haverty, who grew up in the home and was then placed in foster care at the age of six, called the facility "a prison"."There  was no love, no nothing," Mr Haverty told CBC Radio. He wants not only  the Catholic church but also the Irish government to apologise for the  way he and others in the home were treated. Ms Corless said the  government needs to contact any former resident of the home who is still  living, "because it is their families that are buried there". The bones  of the children should be extracted and buried in Tuam’s main  graveyard, she said. "At least we know this now," she said. "It is a huge step forward. We know they’re there now."</blockquote>

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