[RegulatorCountry]

I guess the Catholic residents of the area who have taken care of the site for decades of their own volition are just morons spreading lies, then.

[annalex]

Local residents do not support the "septic tank" story. You do.

Reading some more:

Although the media attributed the “dumped in a septic tank” allegation to Catherine Corless, a local amateur historian, she denies making it. Her attempt to correct the record was reported by the Irish Times newspaper on Saturday (see here) but has been almost entirely ignored by the same global media that so gleefully recycled the original suggestion. That suggestion, which seems to have first surfaced in the Mail on Sunday, a London-based newspaper, reflected appallingly on the Sisters of Bon Secours, the order of Catholic nuns at the center of the scandal.

[boatbums]

The words that some keep missing in this developing story are "more likely to be", "might have been", coulda, woulda, shoulda... The whole story isn't really known yet and, contrary to the comments of some here, NOBODY here gleefully piled on or wished for the worst. I was shocked to read the initial news report, NOT because I was looking for something, anything, to place blame on the Roman Catholic church, but because of the implications of how the rest of the world would see the discrepancy between prolife professions and prolife actions towards children born out of wedlock. I genuinely hope the facts do not line up with the initial conclusions. Lord knows, Christians have gotten a collective black eye from the scandals of child sex abuse, we don't need a worse one concerning children born into a church-sponsored home who were mistreated or neglected or who died because of it.

Like I said in the other thread, the pro-abortion "rights" crowd already asserts we only care about children before they are born and couldn't care less about them after they escape abortion. It's too bad this became another example of CYA instead of an honest investigation and a withholding of judgment until ALL the facts are known.