Baby bonnets on bodies hid post-mortem scars

MANY grieving parents received the body of their baby for burial wearing a little crocheted bonnet, which they were told not to take off.

They couldn’t have imagined the bonnet hid the scars of post-mortem surgery which removed part, if not most, of their dead child’s brain in order to get the pituitary gland.

Tim and Margaret Keating, from Ballincollig, Co Cork, were among the parents who began receiving letters late last week to confirm their child’s gland was removed and passed on to Pharmacia Ireland for use in the manufacture of growth hormones.