Early warnings in searingly painful report show this catastrophe didn't need to endure
Published today, the final report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission makes for sobering reading, showing that in the place of the pre-natal care cited by Litster was neglect, instead of ‘proper diet’ was malnutrition, rather than ‘fresh air’ came incarceration and far than ‘freedom from worry’, the women placed in those institutions were shamefully mocked amid the anguish of their labour and left with life-long trauma. The Commission finds that 9,000, or one-in-seven of all ...
Source: independent.ie