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20 September 2014

horrific abuse of adoptees from Catholic nuns' homes

The documentary “This World: Ireland’s Lost Babies” unearths further truths about the 40,000 to 60,000 babies who were involuntarily given up for adoption, many to the United States, from Catholic mother and baby homes in Ireland, during the 1950s and 60s.
These babies were handed over to these unknown families. The children often chosen from a primitive mail order catalog and the Catholic Church often receiving a sizeable donation. They were selling babies by mail order to the people in the US.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Documentary-unearths-further-horrific-abuse-of-adoptees-from-Catholic-nuns-homes.html