A shocking new chapter has emerged in one of Ireland’s darkest historical scandals. Excavations at the former Tuam mother-and-baby home have revealed a second infant graveyard, decades after the remains of nearly 800 children were found in a septic tank at the same site.
The facility was operated by Catholic nuns from 1925 to 1961, and it housed women who became pregnant outside marriage. Many of the women who were housed in the site were separated from their children after birth.
