More Grotesque Developments in Religious run Institutions in Ireland

[Jolly Red Giant]

There is currently a breaking scandal in Ireland involving the dumping of the bodies of hundreds of babies and young children in a septic tank in a religious institution run by Catholic nuns in the town of Tuam, Co. Galway in Ireland.

The Bon Secour nuns ran a 'mother and baby' institution for unmarried mothers over a period of decades. The objective of the Catholic hierarchy was to prevent these pregnant women emigrating to Britain and allowing their new born children to be adopted into Protestant homes in Britain. Instead Ireland saw a state-sanctioned and funded system for incarcerating unmarried, pregnant women and girls in walled institutions where their sexuality would not offend or contaminate Catholic morals.These women were separated from their babies at birth had to work as slaves for up to four years to pay off their 'penance'. The religious orders were paid by the state to operate these slave incarceration institutions and also made huge sums of money by selling these children into 'good Catholic homes' mainly in the USA.

Many of the babies died of malnutrition as their mothers were prevented from feeding their children. There have also been claims that the children may have been used as guinea pigs for drug trials for pharmaceutical companies with the religious orders again being handsomely 'rewarded'.

After the death of these children their bodies were unceremoniously dumped in a septic tank on the grounds of the institution in Tuam. Many locals were aware of a mass grave in the town but the religious orders studiously suppressed any questions about the situation.

There is widespread anger right around the country at these developments. There are widespread demands for a full public inquiry and the release of all the documents held by the religious orders. The Bon Secour nuns claim that they don't have the records anymore but the masses of the population regard these claims with disdain. Furthermore it is likely that the state have extensive records of the payments they made to the religious institutions. There are now further demands for the disclosure of the records of all similar institutions in the state.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysi...te-271013.html

The breaking of this scandal has led to further revelations of the scandals around the Magdalene Laundries. One women spoke of the treatment of her mother on national radio today. Her mother was institutionalised as a two year old child with her unmarried grandmother in a Magdalene Laundry and as she grew up was forced to work as a slave in the enclosed laundry. The woman was raped at age 19 by a member of the religious order and gave birth to twins (one of whom was the women who spoke on national radio). The twins were immediately removed from the mother and put up for adoption. The women gave birth to a further child as a result of ongoing sexual abuse at the age of 21. Again the child was put up for adoption. The women eventually died at the age of 51 after spending 49 years of her life in the Magdalene Laundry and when her daughter discovered her death cert she found out that the cause of death was the accumulated impact of the chemicals used in the laundry. The woman later discovered that the nuns would not pay for the cost of a grave and instead dumped the body of her mother into a mass grave.

This woman was followed by a man who told about how he was born in a 'mother and child' institution and at the age of five was loaned out by the parish priest to a rich farmer and his wife who didn't have any children. After the farmer died he was loaned out again to another rich farmer as free labour on the farm. He eventually found his mother when he was 59 years old.

The Catholic Church in Ireland has been severely damaged as a result of the child sexual abuse scandals of recent years. The Catholic hierarchy are currently running to the media condemning what has happened and demanding the full disclosure of all information. However, most people do not believe the Church and are intent on kicking the Church as hard as possible while it is down. The severely wounded Catholic Church in Ireland could be so severely damaged as a result of the Tuam scandal and the undoubted other scandals that will emerge as details of other 'mother and child' institutions become public knowledge, that is could be completely destroyed. There are likely to be further demands for the removal of schools and hospitals from religious control in the coming period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_asylum

http://banishedbabies-ireland.blogsp...sidential.html

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/2013Ma...03824KB%29.pdf

http://goldenbridgeinmate39.wordpres...-institutions/

http://www.rabble.ie/2014/05/28/the-...ll-of-secrets/

[Anti-Traditional]

Hopefully the truth will come out about all of this and the church will be told to fuck off. My parents and grandparents who are Irish all have stories about suffering at the hands of Catholic religious figures

[adipocere]

I found the child trafficking to be the most disheartening part. I say that because large human warehouses of yesteryear (30+ years) tend to have been pretty miserable places and not all of them have been entirely shut down. It's not unusual for old lunatic asylums and reform schools in the US to have mass graves out back. They tend to dig them up with predictable regularly.
With that being said, the child traffiking part is obvious in hindsight, but an angle I had never really considered before.
The world is a fucked up, depressing place...

[BigJohnTheRed]

Absolutely horrible.