IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Conall Ó Fátharta
Irish Examiner Reporter
Immediate redress for thousands of women and unaccompanied children who were in mother and baby homes has been rejected by the Government.
It comes as the second interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission recommended an amnesty from prosecution for those involved in illegal adoptions may help “encourage those responsible to come forward”.
The commission also recommends the Government re-examines the exclusion of children who lived without their mothers in mother and baby and county homes from the 2002 Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. It also states the Government could consider “other redress options” for those involved.
As its work is not complete, the commission said it is not yet asserting that abuse took place in any of the institutions it is examining.
It confirmed that around 70,000 women “and a larger number of children” went through the 14 mother and baby homes and four county homes under investigation.
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