Forensic team digging for remains of nearly 800 babies at former ‘mother and baby home’
A forensic team has begun excavating the site of a former “mother and baby home” in Tuam, Ireland, where nearly 800 babies and children are believed to be buried. The institution, run by the Catholic Bon Secours nuns, operated from 1925 to 1961 and housed unmarried pregnant women and their children. Historian Catherine Corless uncovered…