![]() In March 2017, after months of excavation at Tuam, investigators found an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing "significant quantities of human remains".ĭNA analysis of selected remains confirmed the ages of the dead ranged from 35 weeks to three years old and were buried mainly in the 1950s. The home closed in 1961. The deadline, originally February 2018, has been extended twice. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission, chaired by Judge Yvonne Murphy, has been given given funding of £18m to deliver a report into Tuam and 13 other Catholic homes in Ireland, along with four state-run institutions. There had long been suspicions that the vast majority of children who died at the home had been buried on the site in unmarked graves during the period of high child mortality rates across Ireland It proved crucial new evidence in a probe started in 2014, when local historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for 796 babies and children at the institution. A mass grave of babies in a sewage tank was discovered in 2017 at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway. ![]()
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