Child rape victims were in Bessborough maternity registers show
Details from maternity registers, released under freedom of information, reveal between 1954 and 1987, young girls were pregnant in the institution.
The youngest child in the registers dates from 1968. The girl is listed as being just 12 and had been transferred from Bessborough to St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork, where her child had been stillborn in January 1968, as a result of “ante-partum haemorrhage”.
