IRELAND
The Independent (UK)
ED CARTY Thursday 05 June 2014
Nuns in charge of an institute for single mothers where hundreds of babies were buried in a septic tank have said they no longer hold records from the home.
The Mother and Baby Home in Tuam was one of 10 similar homes across Ireland believed to hold the remains of another 3,200 babies and infants.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for the religious orders which ran these institutes to release full details of all the people they took in.
But the Sisters of Bon Secours, which operated the institute in Tuam, Co Galway, said it handed its records to the state after it closed.
They added in a statement that they were shocked and deeply saddened by reports of the burial of 798 dead infants from 1925 to 1961.
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