The discovery of one town’s dark history rocked the world, as the remains of hundreds of babies — some as old as three years old — is now being excavated.
A historian named Catherine Corless is almost singlehandedly responsible for tracking down the identities of the children and their mothers, leading to the discovery of the secret tomb.
Just this week, excavations to exhume and corroborate the identities based on DNA analysis of the remains began… more than 10 years after Corless began her painstaking work to uncover the truth.
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The mass grave contains the remains of what is expected to total approximately 800 bodies of children secretly buried at a “Home for Unwed Mothers”, operated by Catholic nuns in the Irish town of Tuam.
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