This story is fake.
This discovery was also reported in 2014.
How many times are they going to “discover” it and run lurid, sensationalist and distorted articles about it?
It seems a go-to story to get a visceral response. For what purpose?
The Tuam babies were used to defend abortion. Huh?
Guardian 2014 excerpts:
“Tuam’s mothers and the unhappily pregnant today are not unconnected. It is time for Ireland to liberalise its abortion laws”
“All the missing children, it was said, were in the tank. This is supposition. No one knows precisely where they are. The site has not been searched.”
“O’Neill – a professional agitator himself – believes the popular outrage is fake. He is wrong. It was not the septic tank detail that propelled the story everywhere. It was the knowledge, brutally exposed, that young women, some of whom were raped or coerced, were abandoned by family, church and state to a punishment hostel after which they were almost always denied their children. It takes an expert cynic – or a denier – to dismiss this on a detail.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/05/horror-tuam-missing-babies-not-diminished
“Tuam babies horror is “fake news” says Bill Donohue of the Catholic League”
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/catholic-league-calls-tuam-baby-reports-fake-news
Irish Times 2014 excerpt:
“The deaths of these 796 children are not in doubt. Their numbers are a stark reflection of a period in Ireland when infant mortality in general was very much higher than today, particularly in institutions, where infection spread rapidly. At times during those 36 years the Tuam home housed more than 200 children and 100 mothers, plus those who worked there, according to records Corless has found.”
“What has upset, confused and dismayed her in recent days is the speculative nature of much of the reporting around the story, particularly about what happened to the children after they died. “I never used that word ‘dumped’,” she says again, with distress. “I just wanted those children to be remembered and for their names to go up on a plaque. That was why I did this project, and now it has taken [on] a life of its own.””
Taken on a life of its own like when we were kids and would sit in a circle whispering a sentence in each others ears. Remember? When the originator heard it, it had transformed. I bet they don’t do that in school anymore. Should be done every year grades 1 thru 4.