IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Mass baby grave in Tuam, Galway: Bon Secours nuns told to assist investigation
05 JUNE 2014
The Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary has told Bon Secours nuns that they have a moral obligation to engage with an examination of how 796 children died and were buried in a mass grave.
The remains of the youngsters were interred in a concrete septic tank in the grounds of a home in Tuam, run by the Sisters of the Bon Secours, between 1925 and 1961.
A “scoping exercise” to determine the facts behind the case will begin shortly, with a number of government departments involved.
Last night, the Archbishop acknowledged the horror suffered by women “in giving up their babies for adoption, or witnessing their death”.
“The pain and brokenness they endured is beyond our capacity to understand,” he said.
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