I will die from a broken heart Mum vows to find grave of tot born at baby home
Evelyn’s death certificate be marked and a plaque on the wall and a bench where people can go.
“I know Evelyn is in the ground in Bessborough – please mark the grounds for the angels, I beg you.”
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry was due to publish its final report within three years of being established in February 2015.
Its brief was to investigate the treatment of women and children in 14 mother and baby homes and four county facilities between 1922 and 1998. The
The Angels’ Plot is bulldozed commission – set up following claims that 800 babies lie in an unmarked mass grave in Tuam – has delayed releasing its findings four times, publishing seven interim reports.
Its request for an extension until October 30 due to “logistical difficulties” arising from the coronavirus pandemic was granted last week.
For the fourth time the issue was raised at Cabinet on a Friday and the low-key
Bessborough announcement came after 4pm. Ann said she and other survivors who gave evidence to the commission were not notified about the delay and now feel let down. She said: “What a damn disgrace. Every time they put it back I’m getting sicker and sicker because I’m going mad.
“We gave them everything, cried our eyes out, opened up old wounds.
“And now they’re putting it back again blaming Covid?
“All those little babies buried, not even buried, thrown into a field.”
An MBHCOI interim report last year said 900 children died at Bessborough but after five years of “extensive inquiries” the authorities could only find the final resting place of 64.
Survivors’ groups have called for a full geophysical examination of the site and said nuns should be questioned by gardai.
All those little babies buried... thrown into a field ANN O’GORMAN ON HER FIGHT TO LOCATE GRAVES
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