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ORIGINAL: DomKen

WTF!

Run a big orphanage for enough years and kids are going to die but none should die of malnutrition and none should be interred in a septic tank. What kind of monsters were these nuns?

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

WTF!

Run a big orphanage for enough years and kids are going to die but none should die of malnutrition and none should be interred in a septic tank. What kind of monsters were these nuns?

There was a program about it some months ago on British TV.
It wasn't only this one place either.
Apparently, there were quite a number of wash-houses dotted around Ireland that were run by the church and just as bad.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Just when we thought that we had heard the worst of the stories about institutional child abuse by Catholic Church and its agencies, a new horror surfaces:
"In the past week, a horror story has unfolded. Eight hundred children are buried in an unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, in a disused septic tank on the former grounds of an institution known locally as “The Home”. The Bon Secours nuns operated “The Home” between 1926 and 1961 and over the years housed thousands of unmarried mothers and their “illegitimate” children.
The tireless work of historian Catherine Corless has revealed that 796 children, the oldest nine years, the youngest two days old, are in that tank. Causes of death include “malnutrition, measles, convulsions, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis and pneumonia”. The tank is described as “filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls”.
On Liveline during the week, a clear picture emerged. Unmarried mothers incarcerated until they signed over their babies, healthy children sold to be adopted by wealthy Americans and disabled infants, who had no sale value, abandoned in “Dying Rooms”, and their bodies dumped by the brides of Christ in a septic tank."
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/mass-grave-galway-tuam-1494001-May2014/

Further detail is available here: http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/Galway-historian-reveals-truth-behind-800-orphans-in-mass-grave.html

This horror has left me speechless. The levels of moral depravity and hypocrisy are so wretched they seem beyond words. What are your thoughts?

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

If it is true, it sounds a lot like a modern American abortion clinic, save for the babies adopted out.
Not many babies survive an American abortionist.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

If it is true, it sounds a lot like a modern American abortion clinic, save for the babies adopted out.
Not many babies survive an American abortionist.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

If it is true, it sounds a lot like a modern American abortion clinic, save for the babies adopted out.
Not many babies survive an American abortionist.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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If it is true, it sounds a lot like a modern American abortion clinic, save for the babies adopted out.
Not many babies survive an American abortionist.

Except for the fact that abortionists do something immoral, hence the terrible and ungodly result for the lives concerned, whereas in this case, it was all done by pious devotees of the Catholic Church who were doubtless utterly opposed to the evil of abortion, hence the entirely beneficial result for the children concerned of, er, er ....

No, I give up. There isn't enough iron in the world for the irony of this post.

The thing is that you tried...which is so very british of you. With no chance in hell of making it work you forged ahead tennyson like "into the valley of death rode the 600...

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Except for the fact that abortionists do something immoral, hence the terrible and ungodly result for the lives concerned, whereas in this case, it was all done by pious devotees of the Catholic Church who were doubtless utterly opposed to the evil of abortion, hence the entirely beneficial result for the children concerned of, er, er ....

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
which is so very british of you.