Focus of Mother and Baby Homes investigation has moved onto headline-generating institutions

Four years after the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, the focus of its investigation has clearly moved away from Tuam and onto other headline-generating institutions like Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey, writes Conall Ó Fátharta. We now know that more than 900 children died in Bessborough or in hospital after being transferred from Bessborough. Despite very extensive inquiries and searches, the Commission has been able to establish the burial place of only 64 children. The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who owned and ran Bessborough do not know where the other children are buried. The Commission said it found this “very difficult to comprehend” and said that the affidavit on burial practices supplied by the Order “was, in many respects, speculative, inaccurate and misleading”. The Commission carried out a site survey of Bessborough and said that, while it was clear there are a number of locations within the grounds where burials could have taken place, “there is no significant surface evidence of systematic burial anywhere except for the congregation [nuns] burial ground” on the property. Late last month, the Commission confirmed it had carried out a geophysical survey on the grounds of the… Read full this story

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