Cork home accused of conducting illegal tests

An Irish-American woman has claimed that she was used as a human guinea pig at a mother-and-baby home in Cork in the 1960s.

Cork home accused of conducting illegal tests

An Irish-American woman has claimed that she was used as a human guinea pig at a mother-and-baby home in Cork in the 1960s.

Mary Steed, who was born in the Bessboro Home in 1961 and adopted by an American family the following year, said she has documents which prove she was used in a vaccine experiment without her mother's consent.

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