HSE knew of “quasi-illegal deportation and adoption” of children to the USA, Britain, and Australia.

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The revelation is contained in a business plan prepared by principal social worker in the South Lee region, Pat O’Dwyer, in 2011 in preparation for the HSE’s takeover of about 15,500 adoption files from the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Order which ran the Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and Castlepollard Mother and Baby Homes. Mr O’Dwyer …

Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’

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Up until 1970, the UK regularly shipped thousands of orphans and illegitimate children abroad to a life of virtual slave labour and, often, abuse. Giulia Rhodes meets two victims of a policy that robbed them of a childhood and a family Sunday evenings were the highlight of the week when Tony Costa was a child. Then, he and the other …