Work begins on exhuming what people believe are 800 babies inside the subject tank

Dateline Ireland:

Crews have begun work to exhume and identify nearly 800 babies that are believed to be inside a hidden septic tank.

In a small town in the west of Ireland, a dark chapter of history is being unearthed as forensic archaeologists begin the delicate process of exhuming and identifying the remains of hundreds of babies believed to be buried in a mass grave. The site, once a mother and baby home run by nuns, is now a housing estate.

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Catherine Corless, who began researching the Tuam Baby Home from her kitchen table, made the shocking discovery that 796 babies had died in the home.

“There was knowledge that something was here,” she said. “Yes, of course, it was just hidden a lot of them,” Corless said when speaking to the network.

Corless told CNN she was “horrified, absolutely horrified” upon discovering the lack of burial records for the babies. Despite resistance from some in the community and the Irish Catholic Church, she persisted in her research.

“I felt the resistance. I wasn’t expecting that,” she said when speaking to CNN.

Cordless was able to convince Ireland to former a commission to investigate..

The commission found that the remains of 802 children from newborns to three-year-olds were buried in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 as it discovered an “appalling” mortality rate of about 15 percent among children born at all of the so-called Mother and Baby Homes, which operated across Ireland.

Catholic nuns ran the so-called mother and baby institution from 1925 to 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and were shunned by their families. After giving birth, some children lived in the homes too, but many more were given up for adoption under a system that often saw church and state work in tandem..

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