Behind Closed Doors: The Baby Brokers

It all began when news broke of the 796 babies who died at the ’Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home’ in Tuam, Galway. It didn’t stop there, the stories that began to unfold were heartbreaking to say the least. I already knew of the ’Magdalene Laundries’ which were bad enough, that led me to the movie ’Philomena’ which then took me to ’Sean Ross Abbey Mother & Baby Home’ in Roscrea, Tipperary. Just when I thought I heard it all I came home to the news of ’Smyllum Park Orphanage’ seven miles from my own home, yet the list goes on. What really happened behind closed doors? Most importantly what made the church & state think that they could get away with lies, abuse, rape, falsifying documents & the illegal adoption of thousands of children?