Letter to the Editor: Three men conspired in one woman’s dismal fate

Protesters hang babys’ shoes outside Áras an Uachtaráin to highlight their opposition to the sealing of records into the mother and baby home scandal.

I write with regard to the debacle regarding the historical records of mother and baby homes. In most cases of mothers and babies in this abhorrent chapter in our history — it was a tragic tale of a pregnant woman and unborn child; and then infant against the three fathers.

For the most part, three men always knew about what happened and connived to conspire to conceal these so-called sinful secrets. So where were the mothers’ fathers, the children’s fathers and the reverend fathers who were all culpable of grave secrecy in this horrific odyssey of injustice perpetuated against Irish women and children?