Here’s a link about Bethany Home, a Protestant home for unwed mothers in County Dublin. They lost 29 babies in 1936 alone, and they buried 219 babies in unmarked graves over a period of about 25 years. They were accused of proselytising the unwed mothers and their families and visitors, and if they succeeded in converting a Roman Catholic, there were accusations that the convert was rewarded with lowered fees.
I’m shocked that the Church of Ireland allowed innocent children to be starved and mistreated in this way. In one investigation of more than 100 deaths at the home, over 50 died of “convulsions,” and more than 25% died of “heart failure.” Yeah, riiight. It’s obvious that they were murdered by their Protestant caretakers. (Just using the logic of the Catholic bashers here in order to make my unsupported accusations.)
There’s a movie that came out about 10 years ago called “The Magdalene sisters.” It’s based on true accounts of some girls who lived in one of the homes for “fallen” women that the Catholic church ran. It starts off with the main character at a party and her cousin lures her into a closet or small room and rapes her. She’s devastated and tells her sister, who tells her mother, and so on. Anyhow she ends up being blamed for the rape, at least partially, and gets sent to this place where some of the nuns can be pretty cruel.