Uncovering the cruelty of Ireland's 'mother and baby homes'

Uncovering the cruelty of Ireland's 'mother and baby homes' | Mother and Baby

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‘If you got pregnant, that was a crime’: uncovering the Catholic zealotry and cruelty of Ireland’s ‘mother and baby homes’
Director: Mia Mullarkey (www.miamullarkey.com/)
Producer: Alice McDowell
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Throughout the 20th century in Ireland, some 56,000 pregnant unmarried women were forced to give birth in ‘mother and baby homes’ run by the Catholic Church. Infants born into these institutions were either put up for adoption - sometimes without their mother’s consent - or fostered, or else raised on the premises in desolate conditions. And, as revealed by the Irish government’s recent inquiry into mother and baby homes abuses, these children also died inside with startling frequency, with a reported 15 per cent infant mortality rate at the 18 facilities investigated. Released in 2017, the powerful short documentary Mother and Baby by the Irish director Mia Mullarkey profiles some of the surviving children of the infamous Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Taum, County Galway, who are still grappling, decades later, with the wanton cruelty and trauma they endured - all with the complicity of the Irish state and the Catholic Church.

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@Tipperary757 Жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking. I hope the survivors may find peace in their hearts. Such cruelty to the children + their mothers.

@leonardniamh Жыл бұрын

Cruelty to women & children

@abbatrouble Жыл бұрын

Such cruelty to these people was done INTENTIONALLY by the Catholic Church to fill their pockets!

@inspired1114 Жыл бұрын

Well done to all here on your sensitive, kind, truthful empowering coverage of this hell on earth. May all be healed 🙏💕

@shirleymasurik6239 11 ай бұрын

I was sent to a Catholic school by my parents. I never met or experienced such hard cold people as those nuns. This does not surprise me at all.

@user-zd4oz1so7p 2 ай бұрын

Ditto ☹️💔💕❣️💞

@user-yu6pe7ik8r Ай бұрын

It was not only the nuns, priests were exactly the same! Not all of them but a lot!

@marthaperdew Ай бұрын

The same here

@RyanJocvx11 2 ай бұрын

Dear Daniel O’Callaghan My Mother was from the town of Hospital County Limerick and then came to London with her sister at 18yrs old and married my father from Mayo in 1957. They both had wonderful family upbringings,very happy and healthy times. There was seven of us brought up in London likewise we had a great upbringing - our parents would remind us of the treatment the Nuns or Christian Brothers would try to dish out to the school children of the day in the 1930’s. I hope your happy and settled in the USA, one of my father’s brother Tony immigrated to New York in 1965. I wish you well and all the best 🍾

@ritakarwinski1878 Жыл бұрын

The evil of the nuns and the Catholic Church was and is unbelievable, 😡

@katesims2346 11 ай бұрын

One day the perpetrators of this abuse will be called to account by a loving Heavenly Father. All those babies are safe in the arms of Jesus.

@davidkeenan5642 11 ай бұрын

@@katesims2346 Ah rubbish, if they're not already dead they soon will be. There is no afterlife!

@leonardgibney2997 10 ай бұрын

Then there's CSA by the clergymen.

@bikinibabes666 10 ай бұрын

No, not the Catholic Church.....It was a loony fringe of the Catholic Church.

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

the power over the minds of people is, for sure

@nadiaviolet5679 Жыл бұрын

This is indescribably messed up. Sending love and healing to the families impacted by this!

@joansutton 7 ай бұрын

"9,000 children died in Irish mother-and-baby homes, report finds The 3,000-page report described the emotional and even physical abuse some women were subjected to in the so-called mother-and-baby homes." Thousands more survived, traumatized for life. This is the depth of evil, torture of innocent children, the most dire mortal sin.

@danielocallaghan2249 Жыл бұрын

I now live in the USA and was fortunate enough to end up here. I was one of the unfortunate children through no fault of my own was instutionalized by the court in New-Castle West Co. Limerick to St. Joseph's School in Glin Co. Limerick in October1953 the victim of being born into abstract poverty without zero government help. My brother and beautiful sister suffered the same fate. Starvation diets, living in rags winter and Summer were commonplace. Open sores on the hands from the cold damp weather without treatment were common, punishment with heavy leather straps were regular occurrence. Under the supervision of the order of Christain Brother. What a disgrace and shame on the Catholic Church and Government of Ireland of the time. My early life in Ireland is still fresh on my mind as if it were yesterday. My useless father was a drunken clown who absconded to England and never heard from again as with many useless fathers in Ireland. We are very lucky to be alive after our early experiences in that awful country.

@danielocallaghan2249 Жыл бұрын

@@EireAbu Typical Excuse's and coverup as usual. These Workhouses were out of the dark ages and their religious management used the same tactics in these converted to childcare facility's.

@danielocallaghan2249 Жыл бұрын

The eight hundred babies dumped in Tuam were not put there by secular authorities. These were put there by sadistic Brides of Christ who profited from the sale of the ones they knew would bring top dollar. I have firsthand knowledge of the handling and mismanagement of these intuitions by a so-called religious order. I was awarded sixty-five thousand dollars for mistreatment at the hands of the Catholic order of Christain Brother's. Do not water it down with excuses and coverups! But then as usual this is to be expected

@Theowlhawk Жыл бұрын

Inhumane and cruel beyond words, 💔

@annoakley3755 Жыл бұрын

❤

@danielocallaghan2249 Жыл бұрын

@@annoakley3755 Thank you Ann.

@sharonrowe1010 11 ай бұрын

This is so heartbreaking, those poor poor children!!! I’m so upset by it all I no longer associate myself as a catholic and will not baptise any other family members born into my family. Shame shame shame on those who could do this to mothers and children. So thankful to those who have exposed this crime. And that’s the only way to stop cruel humans is to expose 😢

@joyceproudlock1426 9 ай бұрын

If the young girls families gave their daughters the support they should have the nuns wouldn't have been able to get the babies and there would be no so called mother and baby homes

@santhanaraj5863 9 ай бұрын

If you really care for the lives of children, then why did Ireland vote for the widespread abortion of innocent babies ?? That's baby killing, and you know it ... You hypocrites!!

@francisjamesbrennan2034 7 ай бұрын

I have 4children and Will make them go to church like i was or batise or have anything to do with the church for me they are all antichrist because they're doing all the things that the Bible tells us not to do i hate what the church Stan's from with those class of people just please live your life good and cind to your fellow man God bless ,,not the church,

@elizabethryan7772 7 ай бұрын

That's so very sad to hear that you cant separate the Institution form the Scripture. from my understanding nowhere in scripture does it instruct that kind of evil. Clearly they were acting on their own free will - you also have to remember it was the community, family and government that allowed this to happen. Collective thinking and social conditioning of that era.... we're all going through that same social conditioning today...... turning us on each other with hate and stigma. The greatest trick he ever played was to convince the world he 'exist.... Satan. It was mankind who used their free will to abuse the women and children.

@red---paulvanravenswaay2247 7 ай бұрын

Praise God, the world needs more good humans like you.!! COME OUT OF THAT GODLESS INSTITUTION EVERYONE😈😈

@maricriskiwalan7538 Жыл бұрын

I pray that the survivors find peace in their lives. Lord please heal them.

@annettedonnelly5359 Жыл бұрын

😢So very sad and disturbing, absolutely Horrible.....

@nataliebarnes364 Жыл бұрын

so sad how they were treated, poor women and children, hope they all find peace, god bless you all.

@mercedeslove4291 Жыл бұрын

Well done to the Government and their wonderful redress scheme , an absolute disgrace leaving out 40% of the babies who were separated from their mothers.

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

they have to start somewhere i guess

@debrawehrly6900 11 ай бұрын

The Catholic church in Ireland was so cruel.

@mgtowchampion7961 19 күн бұрын

All churches are cruel

@bikinibabes666 10 ай бұрын

This is a complete scandal!!! It's so awful that it went on for so long.....

@user-wg2jd8me9j Жыл бұрын

Only the tip of the iceberg cruel beyond believe😢

@nigelhamilton815 Жыл бұрын

So moving. The Catholic church in Ireland needs to explain , a confession would be appropriate.

@rhodacostain1938 11 ай бұрын

Your joking right?! Needs to be alot more then a confession the whole of Ireland was effected by this children taken from their family’s could be as small as being too pretty, to outspoken, as a product of abuse, product of SA resulting in pregnancies the list is endless, they were used as slave labour with no pay locked in so they could never leave, the majority of the nuns were cold cruel and sadistic, my heart bleeds for Éire. Healing to all and prayers and everlasting peace to all Those you lost their lives to this institution. Shame on the Catholic Church and the state for all the evil they did.

@kristinebailey6554 10 ай бұрын

I am glad to see you say the Catholic Church in Ireland, because the Catholic orphanages in the USA did nothing like this. But then we also did not expect nuns and priests to take responsibility for people having intercourse outside of wedlock. This was never the function of any church, and they would be very ill equipped to deal with it. You simply do not disown your daughters and grandchildren for any reason. It disgusts me to know that families did such a thing! That is where half of the blame (at the very least) lies.

@sunnyseacat6857 8 ай бұрын

@@kristinebailey6554 : Abuse of children did take place in the USA; it may be better hidden but yes, children and babies were abused by nuns and priests and ministers.

@SarahHarris-hx6ec 7 ай бұрын

confession and penance

@seonaghjedlicka3570 Ай бұрын

And unmarried woman had their babies taken away with force. Nuns said its best thing for baby. Imagine 😢

@febash1702 Жыл бұрын

Shameful and disgusting.... But im glad the suvivors are close to each other❤

@wendylynn7605 11 ай бұрын

It sickens me that people took it upon themselves to pass judgment on and mete out punishment to others.

@meawmeawpickle5951 9 ай бұрын

Just heartbroken watching and listening to this my Father was born out of Wedlock called a Bastard all his life and firs Love was sent AWAY to a Convent for the rest of her life, because he was Not good enough

@olwens1368 11 ай бұрын

I am not really child orientated, but I can not begin to imagine how anyone could treat innocent children like this. Especially people who are supposed to be serving a loving God. It is quite horrible.

@daisychain3007 Жыл бұрын

So they starved them as well? Barbarians!

@leonardniamh Жыл бұрын

There are no words for the horror of these evil people

@leonardniamh Жыл бұрын

A simple chat with the state pathologist will confirm it

@toddmiller5884 Жыл бұрын

@@EireAbu Makes sense. After all, if you don't feed your workers they're not much productive use.

@luvmifro 7 ай бұрын

Godbless all the souls of the mothers and babies that suffered. Godbless the ones who survived 🙏🏾💚🕊️

@lauramarsh7621 10 ай бұрын

No wonder my grandma from Ireland said the nuns were evil infact she called them something alot stronger !

@michaelbyrne3467 Жыл бұрын

Was born in castlepollard mother and baby home what those monsters the nuns and priests done to our mothers will never be forgiven i hope that they are burning in hell 😢😢😢😢

@abbatrouble Жыл бұрын

Don't forget that the priests were sexually abusing young children also!

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

i will never understand, how much i read about this sort of things.....my condolences.....

@ZadenZane 3 ай бұрын

O found this by accident looking for videos on Irish literature and culture! The stories here remind me of "Philomena" with Judi Dench and the Alan Partridge guy playing Martin Sixsmith although the film barely touches on how bad it really was, it's more about her search for her son afterwards.

@lorrainereeves4466 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate there must have been exceptions but in the main it would seem the majority of nuns were empty vessels and incapable of affection. What drove such a negative and unfeeling way of living, and what on earth were they taught to believe. That’s the scary bit because it’s not in the Bible. Clearly the church did not teach anything about the love and affection between a man, a woman and their children. Quite wicked and shameful.

@Phiyedough Жыл бұрын

If this was an isolated case it might just be down to a few misguided individuals at one home but it was a systemic approach covering the whole county. They talk about 800 deaths here but 9000 children died overall in these mother and baby homes. It is the RC Church that should be blamed, rather than individual nuns.

@margaretmcging4771 Жыл бұрын

Feel so sorry for those young girls.Imagine how frightening it was for them going through childbirth with no support.

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

not 1 country, it happened in institutions all over the world. Go figure out....@@Phiyedough

@jacquelinehorn9712 Ай бұрын

I’m reading the book called Belonging by Catherine Corliss, I praise her for what she has done for the unwanted❤🙏

@teamcougars Жыл бұрын

It’s revolting how women who gave into natural human nature, emotions, and desires were treated like pariahs during the past many were hidden away and shunned with no consequences for the men who also gave I to their desires and they walked away with zero responsibility or consequences women cannot get pregnant alone 😡💔 and then the women were punished by the nuns and society 🤬

@abbatrouble Жыл бұрын

Until all of this was revealed I never realized that nuns could be so evil!

@jackiekelly4776 Жыл бұрын

@@abbatrouble Oh but they are! I was taught by those sanctimonious and self-righteous cunts until 4th grade; these so called "women of God" treated me like I was less than nothing because I wasn't baptized and not so subtly implied that my mother was an "unfortunate"(their euphemism for a "slut") and a "sinner" all because she was divorced from my biological father. I guess they thought the phrase "practice what you preach" didn't apply to them.

@linda9081 Жыл бұрын

It wasn't always women giving in to natural human nature. Many of the women were raped and sometimes by Catholic priests. The women were told they were sinners but no one told the priests that they were the actual sinners. 😡😡😡😡

@linda9081 Жыл бұрын

@@abbatroubleHere in Canada we had the residential schools( finally closed their doors in the 90s) The nuns that worked in these schools abused and tortured the children. The residential schools were where the indigenous children of Canada were sent. They were forbidden to speak in their native language. If they did then the nuns would pierce the child's tongue. Sometimes frightened siblings would climb in to the same beds to comfort each other. If the nuns found out they beat them. One of the schools had a home made electric chair. The children would have their hair cut upon arrival and their name taken away from them upon arrival. Some of the Catholic priest would tell the girls that if they would go to bed with them they would promise them a place in heaven. Research what happened to children who were sent out to orphanages in Australia ran by nuns and priests. It's absolutely horrific.

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

maybe the nuns didnt know the men made them pregnant?! wouldnt f-ing surprise me

@jayneowen4294 11 ай бұрын

My grandmother was a victim of the laundries. She would never speak in detail about it but she hated nuns with a vengeance because of the way she was treated by them

@xxpollypocket 9 ай бұрын

They were savage bitches.

@krugerfuchs Жыл бұрын

There's still an abusive children's home open in dun laoghaire

@user-pv4vq8ni4q 3 ай бұрын

Why don't they investigate

@krugerfuchs 2 ай бұрын

Why was my comment taken down

@krugerfuchs Күн бұрын

@@user-pv4vq8ni4qit's covered up

@sueepple6945 Жыл бұрын

Theyre a special place in hell for the ill treatment of these poor babies!!

@user-yu6pe7ik8r Ай бұрын

Those poor, poor women and children! It really breaks my heart to hear all the evil that's done to them! May they find peace in their soul!!! ❤❤❤❤

@manonlagrand6945 10 ай бұрын

Just seen the movie Woman in the Wall.... 😢😢 So incredeble sad and heart breaking what happend there!

@user-pv4vq8ni4q 3 ай бұрын

Is that on Netflix a

@shaunnalyne1371 23 күн бұрын

All these precious babies....I'm sick 2 my stomach....they r so innocent....it's just so heartbreaking

@sharonmcilvenna7257 7 ай бұрын

Yes I’m understanding that . Thank you for your reply

@GARYINLEEDS 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, shared.

@annoakley3755 Жыл бұрын

All supposedly in the name of God. They were pure evil. May you all find some peace.

@jackiekelly4776 Жыл бұрын

@annoakley3755 Yup!!!! And people wonder why I avoid any kind of organized religion as well as individuals who use their faith to justify their hypocritical and abhorrent actions, especially if and/or when they say "oh it's God's will" or "it's God's plan"/"God has a plan for everything"....SMH. I sincerely hope the nuns who were directly involved in these atrocities are burning in hell.

@annoakley3755 Жыл бұрын

@@jackiekelly4776 My husband was a non practising catholic and I a methodist when we married 48yrs ago. It raised some eyebrows back in 1975. He said the nuns at his schools were cruel and vicious, and this was for primary pupils.

@sylviabriggs4087 10 ай бұрын

It was all over not just Ireland, shocking our countries are run on evil

@eileenbryson1934 Жыл бұрын

The Catholic church was run by fear, and evil sick priest and nuns. This is terrible, what they did to these women, and children,their treatment was worse, than having a baby, outside of wedlock 😢😢

@bg588 11 ай бұрын

IS run by fear

@beachrose88 2 ай бұрын

my heart is broken

@gissellest333 3 ай бұрын

The horrifying thing is this happened also in Spain during Franco’s reign, Portugal, Chile and who knows where else. This is absolutely horrible.

@gdeec Ай бұрын

I could not even watch after 8 minutes. So very sad.

@franceslynch8815 4 ай бұрын

What horrors the Irish did to children. Heartbreaking. The people who decided to enter convents and priesthoods were entering dangerous cults. But the Irish public willingly became part of this cult without any questions or critical thinking. Why and how did they allow themselves to be led by people dressed in black and become part of a national cult.

@MoparMan1320 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, and drawing light to this subject. As a RN going into my 38th year of practice, and having spent the first 10 years working as Charge on a 30 bed inpatient psychiatric facility, I understand full well the dynamics playing out in these circumstances. It wasn't that long ago, here in the US, that mental hospitals were often referred to as "Snake Pits". There is even a chilling film made in the 40's I think, of the same name. A place to hide from society, that for which they were ashamed...the mentally ill. I noticed on some of the governmental documents associated with these "Homes" for unwed Mothers...children often referred to as "mentally deficient". I imagine that due to the Mother's poor nutrition during pregnancy, and with the delivery practices of the day, that a good number of those children may indeed have born with developmental disabilities, and various forms of brain damage. Unfortunately, as was often the case, those children were targeted for the most horrible of abuse...as they would be viewed as "something less than Human". I can only hope, that through survivors and their supporters, they can fully document past practices and pass laws that will ensure that this can NEVER happen again. And for any survivors still living...that for the rest of their lives they want for nothing, and be cared for with love & dignity. ❤🙏❤

@AlphonsodeBarbo 19 күн бұрын

I went to a catholic high school, and although the priests were always upright and honourable, the nuns on the other hand were vicious and nasty to the students they didn''t like...and the stories from students who went to a catholic primary school told an horrific account of the behaviour and attitude of the brothers and nuns who taught at that level!

@gordonbradley3241 10 ай бұрын

Relgion is such a comfort and a consolation doncha find ? ? ?

@siannyc3941 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely not. Just brainwashing

@mwsmith6209 Жыл бұрын

I pray fullness of love, peace, and joy in the lives of the abused mothers and children who all suffered a living he'll on arth at the hands of a fallen religious belief. even now, who knows what is going on. religious beliefs to this point reflect so badly on catholics in my eyes.

@debrarouselle9761 2 ай бұрын

Check out the beginnings of social services in the states, not a pretty life for many.

@ncreba 2 ай бұрын

So sad

@blossom1643 Жыл бұрын

So Horrible to think such pure Evil could happen to the most innocent & their Mothers in such a beautiful place. I believe there is a special place in Hell for the ones that did that to them. Bless their Souls.❤

@bikinibabes666 10 ай бұрын

There is and will be a place for ghastly individuals like them.

@kitandsons173 Жыл бұрын

At first I watched this and was sad. Then I got really angry. Why didn't the parents of these unwed mothers support their knocked up daughters. Why? Because of pride. The woman on tape talks about the wailing and crying of the children. Why didn't she do something? No one could be bothered. No one cared! They were all poor because of their horrible government and pathetic leaders. Keep them drunk, poor and distracted and they won't care. They try to blame the nuns who got paid NOTHING to raise, teach, feed, doctor, clothe and care for all these unwanted children. NO ONE fought for these children. Men getting drunk every night not even caring for their own children. They had NO PROBLEM sending their teens away to Australia or America never to be seen again. I saw it in my own family. Men taking advantage of women and abandoning them. Stop making excuses. This should have been a government program with PAID employees. Everyone was perfectly fine to let the church carry their burdens. The blame goes in many directions and demonizing the church is such a easy way out. I used to be proud to be from Ireland now I feel like they have become a nation of self loathing, miserable, easy manipulated fools with absolutely no identity. Whatever.

@tainahollo8567 Жыл бұрын

Parents, as well as everyone else, seem to have been brainwashed by the Church. The Church, the "servants of God", pretend to be moral people, so it is justifiable to blame them; more was and is expected of them than of others.

@abbatrouble Жыл бұрын

I have absolutely no sympathy for the "unpaid nuns" who were the most evil of all. Why didn'at least one or two of the nuns report the abuse?

@Charlieb7714 3 ай бұрын

The convents made a fortune out of this baby trafficking operation. Women were oppressed. Some of these mothers were victims of rape, sexual attacks from clergy members and incest. This goes deep and you need a greater understanding of the corruption of the religious orders of the time and a very male-dominated society.

@Uapa500 Ай бұрын

Unpaid nuns? They made money with the laundries, with free labour. They would sell children for adoption. They weren't unpaid.

@santhanaraj5863 9 ай бұрын

I have a question. Let's say, a few people in your neighborhoods or village have done wrong, ... would you say the whole willage should be punished and razed to the ground for the fault of a few ?? Do you think that's justice ??

@user-yu6pe7ik8r Ай бұрын

No! It was the bad apples that infected others! Only those should have been punished!!!

@angelakenny1215 10 күн бұрын

It was swept under the carpet for a long time . It’s all coming out now . I prayed for all the nuns for God to forgive them

@shannaryan9395 5 ай бұрын

I'm a child of a woman here

@user-xn3ks1tl1f 11 ай бұрын

This is Ireland’s shame. Catholic Church at the top& bottom of it. Cold & hard-hearted Nuns dishing out their Christian love & care. Young girls and women denied a voice and their human rights and imprisoned in these Laundries etc where they worked free of charge for years. There were other Institutions too with an appalling record of cruelty. Speak out Ireland and tell the world of your incarceration and the inhumanity doled out to you by an all powerful Catholic Church. Fear reigned supreme.

@nbaanomad6074 11 ай бұрын

It isn’t just the Irish - it's the Catholics who did this to these mothers and babies.

@user-pv4vq8ni4q 3 ай бұрын

The protestants would of sent the mothers away to family and when had the baby they would of brought it up and said they had adopted a child but was kept in family❤

@SonjaShindler 9 ай бұрын

So evil and horrible!

@sunnyseacat6857 8 ай бұрын

Hiawatha Insane Asylum In 1898, Congress passed a bill creating the only 'Institution for Insane Indians' in the United States. The Canton Indian Insane Asylum (sometimes called Hiawatha Insane Asylum) opened for the reception of patients in January 1903. The first administrator was Oscar S. Gifford.

@sallysummerville6554 2 ай бұрын

It's It's shameful that to this day, Ireland nor the Catholic church admits to wrongdoing and still try to cover up the abhorrent behavior of the government and the church! There's a nice place in hell for all those involved in this abuse! And to do it in the name of God is blasphemy!

@lj3014 2 ай бұрын

Just heartbreaking 💔 sweet little children safe now with the Lord Jesus.

@maryconroy6464 6 ай бұрын

There is a brilliant book written by Brian Nugent about the Tuam baby's it well worth a read

@schmi3089 11 ай бұрын

What about the fathers

@siannyc3941 9 ай бұрын

They got away with it…as usual

@beachrose88 2 ай бұрын

they died .starved, hypothermia as not heated, beaten, neglected

@shirleymasurik6239 11 ай бұрын

I believe those children were murdered.

@user-zd4oz1so7p 2 ай бұрын

I was caned 4 times on each hand when I was 8yrs old I bent my hands backwards she made me lose my hands then beat me as hard as she could. my mother from hell congratulated the she dev😢

@user-yu6pe7ik8r Ай бұрын

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@JacquelineMcClenaghan Ай бұрын

Why did none of these nuns stand trial? Surely they were on a par with the nazis?

@laraoneal7284 4 күн бұрын

If u read the book “The History of Children “ children have been treated horribly forever. There were no child abuse laws in America until 1974. What does that tell you❓

@user-zd4oz1so7p 2 ай бұрын

Heartless twisted effers❤ 8:38

@elizabethsommers7486 5 ай бұрын

Seinead she knew everything ❤😊

@aislingneah-dj7fd Жыл бұрын

May the nuns rot in he'll as well as the priests

@kathleenbaker2838 6 күн бұрын

This is by far the most heinous crimes ever committed. They were not Christians; they were murderers. It is so awful what happened to those young women & their babies. May God's blessings be upon the souls of all these women & their children that suffered then died at the hands of those evil nuns. Rest easy.

@carmenneumann9479 5 ай бұрын

No matter how many of these documenaries or films i see, the shock and horror doesn't lesson. 🇨🇦 we have our long history of orphanages and first nations residenial schools. the cruelty under the lies the church knows best and maltreatment of children is finally out in the open with the widespread discovery of unmarked graves around the "schools" in Canada and a govt finally apologizing but the church avoiding it whenever possible

@kristinebailey6554 10 ай бұрын

The Catholic orphanages in the USA did nothing like this. But then we also did not expect nuns and priests to take responsibility for people having intercourse outside of wedlock. This was never the function of any church, and they would be very ill equipped to deal with it. You simply do not disown your daughters and grandchildren for any reason. It disgusts me to know that families did such a thing! That is where half of the blame (at the very least) lies. Reply

@Trish-ql9kz 10 ай бұрын

The grandmothers and families were brainwashed by the church that this was the only thing they could do... I’m sure many of them would’ve helped but couldn’t because of the system and beliefs.

@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын

good point

@joan5856 11 ай бұрын

I realise there is something very different about the Irish. They seem to suffer from an inferiority complex. The Irish nuns at school were always on the defensive. I went to boarding school and there was only one Irish nun there and when I look back she too was on the defensive. I have been led to believe that the Irish mother rules the home and makes all the decisions regarding their childrens future. A son is sent to the priesthood and a daughter to the convent. The life partners were chosen and organised by the mothers. I might be greatly mistaken, but I do believe that a pregnant daughter would be rapidly married to the father of the child in most communities, but not in the Irish the daughter was disgrace and hidden and the child I cannot call it anything else, abandoned. It is not the Church that decreed this, but the mother that could not have her family reputation tarnished.

@sunnyseacat6857 8 ай бұрын

Mental enslavement to the masses. This psychology is prevalent around the world - unwed youug women deemed such a threat for existing that they would be locked up somewhere and babies taken from them. There is a documentary online about African girls treated similarly.

@user-en4mz1gj1e 8 ай бұрын

i bet that place is haunted , there must have been loads of deaths there too which were likely covered up , babies ,children ,mothers . also those who have been there must be haunted forever by the memories too, i bet it was horrific .a lot worse than the movies they make about in these places . ive seen a few , im shocked by how evil nuns were who ran these homes too, when you think of a nun you think kindness and love , because of the old classic nun movies , but in reality many of them were devils and used religion to mask up what they were . im not going to say anymore as i dont want to upset or offend anyone . but my heart truly breaks for the victims who suffered in these places ,

@satsumamoon 11 ай бұрын

I cant even begin to imagine what was in the minds of those nuns. Not just one of them had terrible errant thinking, but the whole lot of them subscribed to whatever it was. They were serving god by ensuring babies and children suffered all day long for ever more ? Or was it a holy act of punishing the oarents? The parents didnt even know about it so that wouldnt make sense. I give up , how did they make sense of this in their own minds? How can so many psychopaths become christians and find each other ?

@joansutton 7 ай бұрын

Satan is their teacher.

@lissagrey112 4 ай бұрын

❤

@vintagebeliever5023 10 ай бұрын

Children and mothers punished.. what about the fathers?

@triedzidono 12 күн бұрын

Breaking the bond between mother & child. -by people that describe selves believers in God, Goodness & justice. Greater evil exists, but is a close cousin.

@DENAANN1000 8 ай бұрын

And they got away with all their madness, people who represent god. This is another example of why I want nothing to do with the catholic church. How those poor mothers and children suffered 😠 And what about the coward fathers? Hope karma caught them too.

@chrissyart7984 2 ай бұрын

What gets me is the catholic Church Allowed this, Did this& How Could ppl Still follow the very Same Catholic church today????Shame 0n Everyone involved in this Heinous Evil......RIP TO EVERY PRECIOUS BABY THAT DIED IN THE HANDS OF THESE MONSTERS 👼🌸🕊🙏🥀✝️🦋⚘💔

@CBB672 9 ай бұрын

This is so sad! Makes me hateCatholic Church, and the Current Pope

@TempleofBrendaSong 10 ай бұрын

The auschwitz of Ireland

@shannaryan9395 5 ай бұрын

My mother was born Castlepollard mother and baby home in 1957

@user-rs4rw6oo3v 3 ай бұрын

Most of that is cat in cage stuff...

@debrap947 10 ай бұрын

God bless Catherine. What a tragedy when children and women are discarded like garbage in the name of the Lord. God is not ashamed of them...religion is!!! Civilization is not so civilized.

@monaandersson5953 Жыл бұрын

In the name of God!🤮

@lucylovic 11 ай бұрын

Different time, different mentality.

@michaelpower4372 11 ай бұрын

That's allways the excuse you people give.

@chuduri Жыл бұрын

Why did they hide Islam from them? To be happy you don't have to be a king

@user-yu6pe7ik8r Ай бұрын

What has islam to do with this? Please!!!

@healthydee381 Жыл бұрын

Is life much better now? Thousands of unwanted babies are torn apart limb by limb in the womb at the request of mother. Why no outcry?

@kAt-jf4vq Жыл бұрын

Nobody cares about those babies after they're born. So shut the fuck up. Women deserves abortion rights.

@Tipperary757 Жыл бұрын

Could you get off your high horse and focus on the current issue? What about all the unwanted children CURRENTLY alive - abused, neglected, addicted, with little happiness in their futures. Foster care is NOT healthy for a child. Life is hard, stop wanting to force women to have babies YOU are not prepared to raise or pay for.

@Tipperary757 Жыл бұрын

You totally missed the point of this film. Enjoy your holier-than-thou black/white approach to the world.

@LS-fe4ob Жыл бұрын

I’ve grappled with the same issue myself and I’m not sure If have the answer. But second poster is right that that’s not really the point of the film in question

@mercedesmukati1451 Жыл бұрын

As far as I know women do not become pregnant by themselves. These holier than thou women ... It really is Misogyny dressed as " care for the unborn"

@crestalpinecrossreflect134 11 ай бұрын

It is evident that all this is part of an international catho-bashing. In Hitler's Germany similar stories have been presented to the public and later found to bee pure inventions. Do you not see how professionally these testimonials have been orchestrated ? A movie director must have put the entire show together.

@michaelpower4372 11 ай бұрын

They would line you up at the bottom of the stairs going to bed. Then they would take a cane and lash us the children across the legs to satisfy their lust to hurt children.

@mickelodiansurname9578 10 ай бұрын

As an irish person i would say your talking a load of bollocks

@michaelpower4372 10 ай бұрын

@@mickelodiansurname9578 I experience it I'm not Bullocking. You think is so shocking you can't bring yourself to believe it.

@red---paulvanravenswaay2247 7 ай бұрын

It's the Catholics who are bashing the Catholics, if a quarter of what they're saying is true, the whole thing needs to shut down.......... yesterday would be too late!!