800 Irish Babies?

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I’m being questioned about nuns killing 800 babies and putting them in a septic tank.

I heard about this story on EWTN. I was wondering what the outcome about that was?

Did the nuns really do this because they were illigitimate children? Or what was the full story?
 
I will defer to others for the details, but when this story first started making the rounds, what I recall is that it wasn’t a “septic tank,” but a concrete vault, and these were proper burials of infants who had died or were stillbirths. Eager for details.
 
It was a makeshift crypt, not a septic tank. After examining the bodies it was determined that all of the children had either been miscarried or died due to disease or other natural cause. There was no foul play involved.
 
I’m fairly sure the “story” was debunked, and the major news agency that reported it, issued an apology.
There was a thread on this…
In the past in Ireland it was so shameful to have a baby out of wedlock that many children were left with sisters. Many of the children were very frail, seriously ill, and otherwise in bad shape. Many died. They were buried in regular graveyards.
This happened a lot in the past, in many places. Doesn’t make it palatable to us in this day and age, but that’s the sad reality. No, they were not placed in septic tanks as was reported. I’ll look for the link to the retraction.
 
Prdgl and others-

This is what I thought. Thank you for the affirmation.
 
The whole thing is big stinking load of BS.

The Sisters didn’t kill them. They cared for them. The whole thing is a hoax.

It wasn’t a septic tank but a brick lined “shaft burial vault” commonly used in Europe as mass graves until recent times.

Some of the children were orphans but it was not uncommon for parents to abandon children because they were born out of wedlock. Society was not tolerant of such children and they were sent to orphanages or to serve in homes of the rich. There was extreme poverty in Ireland at the time and parents sometimes abandoned their children to orphanages.

The sisters cared for the kids as best as they could in appalling conditions with little to nothing. They gave up their own meals so that the kids could have food.

forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/

-Tim-
 
And they weren’t nuns. Nuns are cloistered and never leave the convent.

They were active religious. Active religious are not nuns.

-Tim-
 
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