Irish authorities have begun excavating a site in Tuam, County Galway, where the remains of 796 babies are feared to be buried in a disused septic tank at a former Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers.
The site, once home to the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, operated by the Bon Secours order of nuns from 1925 to 1961, housed thousands of women, many of them victims of rape or abuse who were forced to give up their children……READ ORIGINAL & FULL CONTENT HERE