tuam babies documentary bbc

John Carty 21 months. Today was one of those days I wont forget. Filmmaker Teresa Lavina speaks to IrishCentral about her experience in making a documentary on the Tuam Mother and Baby Homes and the difficulties she's faced in getting the truth heard in Ireland. The United Nations defines a mass grave, as containing three or more people in it. Under its terms of reference, the commission is tasked with investigating practices in Irish mother and baby homes over a 76-year period, from the foundation of the state in 1922 through to 1998. The same miscreants who passed themselves of as holy men and women of a corrupt and deeply immoral church. Whats contributed to this is that somehow Ireland had remained oblivious to even the existence of the Boys Club or the depth of harm inflicted there. Some of the kidnapped children had their original metrics of birth destroyed, and their names changed so were classified as "of little sale value" due to chronic undernourishment, deformity or ongoing illness, they would then be sent to other Religious run Institutions, within Ireland or abroad. But the bones of these 796 babies are still in these chambers, these septic chambers, under the ground. News of the mass graves at Tuam finally made the newspapers last week, but I had heard of the site and visited the shrine five months ago while researching a BBC TV documentary about the estimated . The slave women and their children built these Religious Institutions against their will. Details of the inquiry's final report is leaked to a newspaper days before publication, angering campaigners and government ministers. Silke, a mother of eight who died earlier this year in Co. Leitrim describes in the documentary how she was exploited for labor, never allowed to eat at the same table with the family, andwas beaten if she did not complete her work or if she defended herself. Legal medicine has greatly benefited from the development of molecular biology and its new analytical techniques, in particular DNA analysis, in the identification of highly decomposed human remains. Even Irish Catholic Church practice of slavery didn't usually try to defend it - they made excuses and attempt to avoid being caught; which suggests that they, the Irish Catholic Church know that they were doing wrong. Many of these kidnapped children now grown women and men, upon returning to Ireland to look for their families, in the last few years, said that their childhood kidnapping and abuses with their new families abroad has left an indelible haunting impression on them, when years later they learned the truth. Despite a six-year investigation, the commission was unable to locate burial records or official graves for most of those children.

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