IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Jun 05, 2014 By David Coleman, Adelina Campos
John Rodgers tells how disease was rife and kids would vanish overnight at the hellish home where mass unmarked grave was found
A survivor of the mother and baby home at the centre of the graves scandal last night revealed the hellish conditions kids were forced to live in.
John Rodgers, 68, described it as the home in Tuam, Co Galway as a “rabid playground where you couldn’t get too attached” because kids would simply disappear.
John, who spent five years there, believes the terrible conditions they were forced to live in were responsible for the high mortality rate.
He explained: “We’d all been separated from our mothers early on. And I remember the place being overrun with children, maybe 200 or 300.
“Many of them were ill, including me. It was like a rabid playground.
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