The remaining archives will be sealed for 30 years
Remember those skeletons in the septic tank at the Catholic-run mother and baby prison [formally “home”] in Tuam? Let’s hush all that kind of thing up until everyone’s dead, ok?
In September, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes said bespoke legislation would be required to safeguard and transfer a database of the mothers and children who were resident in the main mother-and-baby homes.
The bill provided for the database to be sent to Tusla, which raised concerns among former residents of the homes and their families over their ability to access the information held by the Child and Family Agency.
Under a 2004 act, the remaining archives will be sealed for 30 years. Last Friday, the bill passed all stages in the Seanad.
Sorry, archives are sealed! Can’t help you I’m afraid! Next!
The Catholic church is good at this business of sealing its own records so that the victims can’t find the evidence, along with the business of sending rapey priests to a different parish instead of stopping them or doing anything to help their victims.
The Catholic church is an evil institution. Most of the US Supreme Court is Catholic. That’s no accident.
In a statement to RTÉ News after the Dáil vote, Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns said: “I asked the minister on the outset, if he will be considering any of the amendments put forward by TDs that are based on input from survivors and human rights experts? He said no.
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“We are talking about the most serious kinds of human rights violations – missing children, forced disappearances, illegal adoption and so much more horrific systematic institutional abuse,” she said. “The mother and baby homes commission was formed in light of the discovery of 800 dead children and babies in a misused septic tank,” Ms Cairns added.
“It is sickening that the Minister didn’t consider those affected and then wouldn’t even consider amendments myself and other TDs submitted – amendments based on inputs from survivors and human rights experts,”she said.
Demon God wins another round.
H/t tigger_the_wing
My own TD made an excellent speech about this, but to no avail. I am heartbroken and very, very angry at what these evil people have done.
It is time to disband the Catholic church altogether. I wish I had any idea how to start…
They didn’t get where they are today by letting anyone disband them.
Much like the Mafia, but with massively better PR.
It is not of course only the Catholic Church, though it is the most skilled at protecting itself, being, as all churches are, a political organisation and having had centuries of political experience. Any believer, particularly in Christianity or Islam, believes that there is a moral order (and law) beyond the purely human world, and that higher moral order is to be deferred to and obeyed. Sometimes, this may lead to doing what is right, as in the case of those individual Christians who defied Nazi law or Communist edicts. But it must necessarily lead to abuse, particularly in the case of organisations that see themselves as standing above any merely human order.
“We are talking about the most serious kinds of human rights violations – missing children, forced
disappearances, illegal adoption and so much more horrific systematic institutional abuse,” she said.
“The mother and baby homes commission was formed in light of the discovery of 800 dead children
and babies in a misused septic tank,” Ms Cairns added.
No doubt those babies and children had been baptised, and so got to wherever babies and dead children go: a septic tank on earth and a new life in the skies. Thinking about those nuns and priests, as well of Mother Teresa, I suspect they believe that life is not only a vale of tears, but bloody well should be one, so let’s make it as miserable as we can.