IRELAND
Irish Post
By Erica Doyle Higgins
SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have expressed their fury at the Irish Government for its ‘immoral’ exclusion to certain survivors in a redress scheme.
The recommendation came in a 34 page report which suggested that the re-examining of the exclusion of ‘unaccompanied children’ from mother and baby homes and county homes from the redress scheme.
Children were considered ‘unaccompanied’ if they were resident in a home, county or otherwise, without their mother.
The unaccompanied children were situated in homes such as the Protestant Bethany Home, the Bessboro Home and Castlepollard Home.
The report said it is “clear that children who were resident” at the mother and baby homes under investigation “have a real cause for grievance” at being left out of any redress scheme.
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