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Thousands more women admitted to mother and baby institutions than estimated, report finds
The report includes 70 recommendations and says many women faced rape, degrading treatment and forced separation of families.
- On Tuesday, the Truth Recovery Independent Panel published its final report, finding more than 15,000 women and girls were sent to Mother and Baby Institutions and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland between 1920 and the 1990s.
- Testimony from almost 300 affected individuals reveals many faced "degrading treatment," with numerous women subjected to rape or other abuse before entering the institutions, which operated with systemic gender-based discrimination.
- Issuing 70 recommendations, the report documents how babies were moved into the outside world, though the Panel noted difficulties obtaining records from Barnardo and the Sisters of Mercy regarding facilities operated between 1950 and 1970.
- The Panel urges immediate appointment of a public inquiry chair while demanding survivors receive "core participant status," which one survivor said will provide a platform for an "honest account" of these events.
- Legislation passed by the Assembly last week, nearly five years after initial recommendations, with the Panel expressing regret that "synergies that should have been created between the panel and the inquiry have been lost due to delay.
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Evidence of historic sexual assault and medical experiments at north of Ireland mother and baby homes
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual violence and cruel treatment A panel of experts and victims-survivors has released its shocking findings on mother and baby homes in the north of Ireland. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel (the IP) published a report detailing horrors that included sexual assault, forced labour and non-consensual medical experimentation […] By Robert Freeman
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Thousands more women admitted to mother and baby institutions than estimated, report finds
The Truth Recovery Independent Panel contained detailed testimony of the treatment 300 women suffered at institutions run by the Catholic Church, some Protestant denominations and the state until the 1990s.
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