"Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment." (John 7:24)
Any fair-minded reader would be looking for answers, not simply passing on lurid speculations. Just twenty four hours later, the "800 baby corpses dumped in a septic tank" story has already been debunked:
Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story (Irish Times link)
These children --- according to the documentary records on file in the county --- died because epidemics of infectious diseases like pneumonia, gastroenteritis and TB were sweeping through West Ireland (rocky, boggy Connemara, the poorest edge of the poorest country in Western Europe) -- during a time when there were neither vaccines nor antibiotics (pre-1950) --- and when whole wards ---in orphanages, paupers' shelters, and old age homes--- could be wiped out in a couple of weeks.
Where they are all buried has not yet been determined, but at this point the writer of the original story (Catherine Corless)is saying they "cannot" be in that famous, world-wide-reported pit, because only "several" small skulls have been found there.
The individual ---Barry Sweeney --- who as a boy actually found the burial pit 40 years ago, in 1975, thinks he remembers "about 20" and the assumption at that time was that they were much older remains from the Great Famine. The actual residence was built in 1840, N.B. 174 years ago.
Interim summary: No excavation of the property has been done. There has no exhumation or forensic analysis of human remains. No 800 skeletons have been found.
And there were records of health board inspections from the 1920's and 1930's which recorded zero --- zero --- evidence of abuse or neglect.
This is an appalling episode in the history of the miserable hardships of the Irish people. It is stomach-churning to think of what was suffered, not only by the tiny children themselves, but by the impoverished women who birthed them and the other impoverished women (very similar in age and circumstances) who struggled to care for them.
That's not as satisfactory --- for some people's purposes -- as a lurid headline, though, is it?
In a time when a world-wide jihadist movement wishes to eliminate Christians and Jews from the face of the earth, it is long past time for the self-righteous of any JudeoChristian denomination to discontinue condemning and antagonizing those with whom we should be making common cause and seeking reconciliation.