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This article is about a related scandal and may provide more context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-babies-and-children-found-at-t

This article is about a related scandal and may provide more context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-babies-and-children-found-at-tuam-orphanage-in-ireland https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-... Ireland had a practice of shaming and pressuring unmarried women to give up their babies for adoption. This pressure came from families, church, and the broader society. These babies were treated as second-class citizens in orphanages. Some (many) of them died, others were adopted. So while the entire practice was abhorrent, these children were taken through coercion, not kidnapping.

yebyen 8y ago
This article is terrible and seems to have been flagged off the front page, but how do you know that it didn't happen exactly like they say? The Reddit thread I linked below had corroborating witnesses showing up to say that is exactly how it happened. Some children were shipped overseas with their mothers' coerced consent, some parents were shown dead babies and their children were never heard from again. Some were left to die and tossed down a hole without a funeral, some were made to work as slaves in the orphanage... and it's not the only primarily Catholic country where this scam was prevalent; if the stories are to be believed this was an order of magnitude more common in Spain around the same time. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8ppl72/comment/e0d8zhe https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8ppl72/comment/e...