But controversy over the fate of the hundreds of children who died while resident in the home made international headlines in 2014, when it became known as the Tuam babies scandal. Tuam babies: Excavation of children's mass grave to begin in 2019 - BBC "We acknowledge in particular that infants and children who died at the home were buried in a disrespectful and unacceptable way. Still no action four years after discovery of 796 babies in Tuam mass grave Many of the Survivors have wept openly when they were told of family histories blighted in these hellholes of Religious Institutions that had been a mystery to them.The Survivors want their families recognised in a durable way. The Tuam home was run by a order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Bon Secours. Slavery in any form is wrong and it is disgusting that the Irish Catholic Church profited by enslaving women and children in their Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland. An Irish historian and activist whose research uncovered the bodies of 796 babies and young children buried in a sewage tank at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has blasted Government inaction. This video is for fair use for purposes like criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research and it obeys Fair Use law. Both of their mothers were incarcerated in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in the early 1940s. All the slaves, male or female were unpaid, most worked very long hours, their duties were to undertake cleaning, cooking, laundry, child minding and other household tasks in private households and hotels, farms and hospitals, many of the women were also beaten and a few got pregnant after having been beaten and raped. The publication of the final report of the inquiry into mother and baby homes is described as a "landmark moment for the Irish state". We would like to thank Mari Tatlow Steed for her contribution in these very important visual elements. "I still haven't got my head around it. For the next 36 years, it houses unmarried mothers and their children during a period when women were ostracised by Irish society and often by their own families if they became pregnant outside marriage. Tuam Ireland's Shame Documentary - YouTube This Book is by my good friend Maureen Sullivan, titled-, List of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools of Ireland, Feb. 13, 2023, at 5:03 a.m. LISBON (Reuters) -, Jean-Pierre Ricard, a long-standing bishop of Bordeaux who was made a cardinal by, in 2016, has admitted to a "reprehensible" act on a 14-year-old girl, the president of the Bishops' Conference of.