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Woman says it's 'criminal' records have been kept from her after she was told by Tusla she was illegally adopted thesun.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesun.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The programme, RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Illegal Adoptions, also details how the Sisters of Charity, who ran the infamous St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Society, pursued a birth mother for maintenance payments for her daughter, long after she had actually been adopted. Among documents obtained by one woman who was illegally adopted, Dubliner Susan Kiernan, was a demand by for £85 from her birth mother. The fee, roughly equivalent to €3,200 today, was charged by the Sisters of Charity for a baby’s upkeep until they were adopted. When her birth mother could not afford to pay, the nuns pursued her. A threat was made to send the child back to her.
RTE doc finds religious orders ruthlessly pursued and harassed mums for maintenance fees months after children adopted Updated: 3 Mar 2021, 7:23 RELIGIOUS orders ruthlessly pursued and harassed mothers for maintenance fees months after their children were adopted, an RTE documentary has found. An explosive expose will tell how the Sisters of Charity called a mum at her workplace threatening if she didn’t pay up her child would be returned - despite already being adopted. 2 2 Dubliner Susan Kiernan was one of the 126 illegally adopted The damning documentary will also lay bare the role Prof Eamon de Valera, the son of the former Irish President, played in facilitating illegal adoptions in Ireland.