For an Irish Catholic Church desperate for good news, the bad keeps
coming. Most recent are the revelations about a mother-and-child home
run by the Bons Secours sisters in the town of Tuam, County Galway,
which operated from 1925 to 1961.
While some early, highly sensationalized media reports about hundreds of dead babies dumped into a septic tank have turned out to be false, details about the treatment of children—their living conditions, mortality rates, and burial after death—unleashed a fresh round of shock and outrage in a nation that has seen plenty of both during two decades of reports detailing a history of physical and sexual abuse in Catholic settings.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/irish-catholicisms-two-abuse-crises
While some early, highly sensationalized media reports about hundreds of dead babies dumped into a septic tank have turned out to be false, details about the treatment of children—their living conditions, mortality rates, and burial after death—unleashed a fresh round of shock and outrage in a nation that has seen plenty of both during two decades of reports detailing a history of physical and sexual abuse in Catholic settings.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/irish-catholicisms-two-abuse-crises