UNITED STATES/IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY OLIVIA KELLEHER
14 MAR 2017
A nun based in the States has indicated that she was sold to a family in America after a deal was arranged at the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork.
Sr Brigid O’Mahony says she was bought by a Texan family in 1954 after an Irish priest facilitated her adoption from Ireland.
Sr O’Mahony, who is based in New York with the Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, told the Irish Post as soon as she could think, her parents told her she was from a work home in Ireland.
“They explained to me that babies were sold to American parents and that I was lucky enough to be sold to them as many of the children in those homes never got out.
“I was adopted first, I came over just before I was two-years-old, and then they went back to Bessborough and got my brother Gerard who was five at the time.”
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