The_Metatron wrote:

Agrippina wrote:I think that was for witches Angelo. If they floated they burnt them anyway.

And, what burns apart from witches?

Varangian wrote:http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/

It seems like the "septic tank" bit was an exaggeration/misinterpretation. Still, it doesn't absolve the RCC. If only Hitchens had been alive today; he would have skewered that institution of puffed-up, frock-clad, celibate purveyors of bronze-age myths and repression.

The_Metatron wrote:

Agrippina wrote:I think that was for witches Angelo. If they floated they burnt them anyway.

And, what burns apart from witches?

73Landau wrote:This sort of thing has been happening for thousands of years in all cultures. Some countries still stone women to death for wanting a relationship, or getting raped by a mob. There was the white and aboriginal children rescued from abuse and put into homes in Australia and subsequently treated less than appropriate by our modern standards. Laws and attitudes have changed so what was once accepted openly is now abhorred. I am not condoning the actions of the past, just saying that society standards are now different.

73Landau wrote:This sort of thing has been happening for thousands of years in all cultures. Some countries still stone women to death for wanting a relationship, or getting raped by a mob. There was the white and aboriginal children rescued from abuse and put into homes in Australia and subsequently treated less than appropriate by our modern standards. Laws and attitudes have changed so what was once accepted openly is now abhorred. I am not condoning the actions of the past, just saying that society standards are now different.

KeenIdiot wrote:Looks like it was exaggerated:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... aggerated/

None of this is to excuse the substandard environment in those homes, but the reality is grim enough.

angelo wrote:Never let the facts interfere with a good story.

"Significant quantities" of human remains have been discovered at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.

It comes after the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation began test excavations at the site of the children's burial ground on the Dublin Road housing estate in Tuam, Co Galway in October 2016.

The commission was established following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies in Tuam over a number of decades and the manner in which they were buried.

In a statement today, the commission said significant quantities of human remains have been discovered in at least 17 of the 20 underground chambers which were examined earlier this year.

It added: "These remains involved a number of individuals with age-at-death ranges from approximately 35 foetal weeks to two-three years."

The mother-and-baby home operated from 1925 to 1961; a number of the samples are likely to date from the 1950s, the commission said. Further scientific tests are being conducted.

Dáil debate on Tuam babies' scandal delayed as fewer than 20 TDs show up.