It would perhaps be useful to you and others to be able to step out of defense mode long enough to understand how the constant, rapid-fire excuses and rationalizations sound. It feeds the fire of speculation because the denial is just so obvious, with such historic precedent in other matters. Your church can err and has erred. They’re human.
At times, circling the wagons only makes matters worse. I’m perfectly capable of accepting a factual explanation of this. Thus far, none has been forthcoming. What we do have is death records for almost 800 children with no record of burial from that home. And, we have a septic tank on the former grounds of that home containing skeletons.
Answer the question as to just where these almost 800 children were buried and lay it to rest.
Done. It never happened, which is typical when anti-Catholic bigots make these kind of claims::
Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story
Catherine Corless’s research revealed that 796 children died at St Mary’s. She now says the nature of their burial has been widely misrepresented
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...On St Patrick’s Day this year Barry Sweeney was drinking in Brownes bar, on the Square in Tuam. He fell into conversation with someone who was familiar with Corless’s research, and who repeated the story of boys finding bones. “I told her that I was one of those boys,” Sweeney tells The Irish Times in his home, on the outskirts of Tuam. “I got a phonecall from Catherine a couple of weeks later.”
Sweeney was 10 in 1975, and the friend he was with on that day, Frannie Hopkins, was 12. They dropped down from the two-and-a-half-metre boundary wall as usual, into the part of the former grounds that Corless and local people believe is the unofficial burial place for those who died in the home. “We used to be in there playing regular. There was always this slab of concrete there,” he says.
In his kitchen, Sweeney demonstrates the size of this concrete flag as he recalls it: it’s an area a little bigger than his coffee table, about 120cm long and 60cm wide. He says he does not recall seeing any other similar flags in their many visits to the area.
Between them the boys levered up the slab. “There were skeletons thrown in there. They were all this way and that way. They weren’t wrapped in anything, and there were no coffins,” he says. “But there was no way there were 800 skeletons down that hole. Nothing like that number. I don’t know where the papers got that.” How many skeletons does he believe there were? “About 20.”