Not a church policy there or then if ever as far as I have been able to determine.
Policy is not always followed, GeronL. The rush to exonerate is no more accurate than a rush to condemn. There are still skeletal remains in a disused septic tank on that property, and there are still 796 deaths of infants and children from that home for which there are no burial records. There is an investigation ongoing, into this and other homes. The one nominally Protestant home in Ireland, Bethany, has already been thoroughly investigated and there was mistreatment. 226 buried in unmarked graves. Look back to the early threads on this topic on FR and see how the difficulties and abuse discovered at Bethany was being touted. Then look to see how every instance of possible negativity here has been rejected or downplayed. It’s partisan bias. None of those homes was a pleasant place for children. None. Nuns aren’t perfect, we saw that with the Magdalene Laundries, to which many of these unwed mothers went. Run by the same order as Tuam.