Albion Wilde said, on another thread:
I am not defending any misconduct. But I am disappointed some freepers’ open eagerness to believe the rank inaccuracy and sensationalism of the reporting, in light of the anti-Christian and anti-Catholic agenda and propaganda sweeping Western nations supported and funded by Marxists, from the One World financiers to the UN to the Islamists.
Let’s take a look at how hysterically misleading this “800 babies in a septic tank” headline is. As two earlier posts have indicated:
• There has not even been an establishment of fact that the container was a septic tank, and
• the historian on whose work this story was based said she did not characterize the container as a septic tank,
• nor did she report on any 800 remains in such a tank.
• What she did was research public records on paper of 800 child deaths at the home from various causes, over a period of many decades.
• The actual burial places of approximately 775 of those children had not been determined as of the above article, due to a lack of funding.
• There is no evidence whether Catholic rites were or were not performed.
• The eyewitnesses who discovered the container in 1975 said they saw, at most, 20 small skulls.
• The remains could have been children, could have been miscarried fetuses, could have been from the 20th century or could have been from the Potato Famine era.
Since so few forensic determinations have yet been made, the headline is obviously intended to stir up hatred and disgust, and it has worked among quite a number of freepers.
Also, at what level were these children found? I’ve learned through my interest in the finding of King Richard the Third that at what level of soil a body is buried is what determines when the person lived and died. Obviously, the closer to the surface, the later the burial. Now that they’ve knocked off the septic tank lie, I wonder if these were 19th and early 20th century children. Just a thought.