Survivors fear Mother and Baby Homes Report will trivialise forced adoption trauma

Survivors fear Mother and Baby Homes Report will trivialise forced adoption trauma

Bed sheets with the names of hundreds of dead children draped on the gates of a mass burial site at Tuam, Co Galway. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Institutional survivors fear the forthcoming Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report will “trivialise” the “trauma” of forced and illegal adoptions.

They say they are "angry and dismayed" over the leak of details of the report including that it includes a finding that around 9,000 of the 60,000 children born in the homes died.

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