A documentary about the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway, Ireland which closed in 1961. | dG1fRHVYNl9QbFFpNUU
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00:00 The Commission's excavations have revealed that human remains are visible in a series
00:09 of chambers that may have formed part of sewage treatment works at the former Bong Secur mother
00:16 and baby home.
00:20 When the story broke and said that babies were found in a septic tank, it hit home because
00:25 that's the home I came from.
00:27 How dare they treat children like that?
00:30 How dare they?
00:32 The numbers in this story are simply shocking.
00:34 796 recorded deaths.
00:38 I think we have to start with the fact that it's a crime scene.
00:42 Why did my sister die of a treatable disease?
00:45 Why are these babies in this place?
00:48 What the hell is the story?
00:51 A lovely, Catholic, loving, warm, welcoming country now has a mass grave in the west of
00:58 Ireland and the nuns were involved.
01:01 There are 796 death certificates but we absolutely do not know that all of those bodies are in
01:08 that disused septic tank.
01:11 I'd like to see the paperwork that my birth mother signed me over to my adoptive parents.
01:17 I want that one sheet of paper where both signatures from both are wrong and nobody
01:23 can give it to me.
01:25 We're talking about the worst human rights violations imaginable.
01:29 Missing children, enforced disappearance, illegal adoptions.
01:36 Did they die in huge numbers and are buried in mass graves all over the country?
01:40 Or were their records falsified and these children were illegally adopted?
01:45 Where did all the children go?
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