The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.
In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.
There are thousands of diseases that historically kill newborns. Modern medicine helps with a lot of them from vitamins to antibiotics to surgical interventions.
if you throw a bunch of babies into a pile of diseased babies, is that murder or just god’s work?
if it wasn’t murder, there wouldn’t be 800 dead fucking babies in a septic tank
general rule of thumb: if you’re hiding hundreds of dead babies, you’re a murderer… the details of how you killed them is irrelevant.
if you drop a baby next to a pool of water and don’t stop it from drowning that’s not negligence, it’s murder.