Profound Contempt for Human Life

It is time for the people of Ireland to seek true accountability by charging the Irish Catholic Church and the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home with Criminal Charges under these Acts. I lay out my case below. I am not legally trained, but I am open to corrections. Irish Law still applies; the Irish Government need to do their job and hold both the Irish Catholic Church and the Bon Secours Sisters accountable. Both Irish Law and European Law is very clear on this matter. 
 
Infanticide Act, 1949
 
(1)    On the preliminary investigation by the District Court of a charge against a woman for the murder of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, the Justice may, if he thinks proper, alter the charge to one of infanticide and send her forward for trial on that charge.
 
(2)     Where, upon the trial of a woman for the murder of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, the jury are satisfied that she is guilty of infanticide, they shall return a verdict of infanticide.
 
(3)     A woman shall be guilty of felony, namely, infanticide if--
 
 (a) by any wilful act or omission she causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, and

(b) the circumstances are such that, but for this section, the act or omission would have amounted to murder, and
 
(c) at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child and may for that offence be tried and punished as for manslaughter. 
 
(4) Section 60 of the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861, shall have effect as if the reference therein to the murder of any child included a reference to infanticide.
 
There is in Irish Law;- Offences Against The Person Act, 1861

60. If any woman shall be delivered of a child, every person who shall, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child, whether such child died before, at, or after its birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: 
 
Provided, that if any person tried for the murder of any child shall be acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the jury by whose verdict such person shall be acquitted to find, in case it shall so appear in evidence, that the child had recently been born, and that such person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of such child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, and thereupon the court may pass such sentence as if such person had been convicted upon an indictment for the concealment of the birth.
 
Corpse concealment involves hiding a body for criminal purposes for many different reasons, such as destroy evidence of a murder or avoid the discovery of the victim. Although defendants could argue that they did not conceal the corpse with any criminal intent, but rather to spare themselves or others from emotional distress or to honor the wishes of the deceased. However, these arguments are often challenging to substantiate, and defendants may encounter significant legal obstacles when attempting to justify their actions.
 
Herein, we report a case involving the concealment of a woman's corpse by her father. Autopsy and histological investigations were significantly limited due to the advanced decomposition of the body. Nevertheless, by integrating these data with radiological findings obtained from total body CT and micro-CT of the larynx-hyoid complex, hanging was deemed the cause of death. Additionally, the psychological evaluation of the father indicated that the act of concealment was motivated by emotions rather than criminal intent.
 
The disposed bodies of Babies and Children found in a Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home in County Galway, run by The Bons Secours Sisters, was clearly a crime. The Bons Secours Sisters cover up was a worse crime, the cover-up is often considered worse than the initial crime because it involves a conscious decision to deceive, betray public trust, and potentially obstruct justice, this is what the Bons Secours Sisters did. 

The disposed bodies of Babies and Children were not disposed of in ways that we would typically assume to be humane today, or any other day. 

Instead of respectful individual treatment, the disposed bodies of the Babies and Children were left in piles to decompose, inside a Septic Tank. Their identities were stripped away as were there lives. There was no Dignity in death.

Tampering with the bodies of dead Babies and Children was motivated by a desire to dispose of bodies to cover up their crimes. The horrendous crimes of  The Bons Secours Sisters that ran the Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home in County Galway. 

Here, necrocide is the violation of the long tradition of burial by inhumation. It's the inappropriate practice of tampering with remains.

"Necrocide" has two distinct meanings: in a medical context, it can refer to a substance that causes necrotic cell death, while in a historical and sociological context, it refers to the desecration of remains and graves to conceal mass crimes or to violate the sanctity of the dead. 

Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home - Babies and Children were stripped, not only of their dignity but of all clothing and personal items, the abandoned bodies were flushed or piled inside a used and later a disused Septic Tank. 

This discarding of Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home Babies and Children bodies is a performance acted out through the lack of appropriate burials. The absence of respect and dignity afforded to the dead Babies and Children suggests that the Nuns, the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home beliefs about those, vulnerable Babies and Children, that they both, the Bon Secours Sisters and the Irish Catholic Church, held in utter contempt. 

Irish Authorities are checking indications that the disposed Babies and Children in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, fell victim to the Irish Catholic Church’s "euthanasia" program which killed thousands of Children with mental and physical disabilities, in other Religious run Institutions in Ireland. 

Of the 796 skeletons of disposed Babies and Children believed to have been aged between one day, and nine years of age. All the disposed Babies and Children were buried without coffins. A few of the disposed Babies and Children’s skulls show signs of possible physical disabilities. 

“There's a vague preliminary suspicion that a few of the Babies and Children were euthanasia cases" 

Around 170,000 Babies and children were detained in the Religious run Institutions of Ireland. All were deemed "unworthy of life" thousands were sold off, many were beaten, most were raped and a few even murdered.

Throughout the years of the Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home existence, there were  several advertisements in the Tuam Herald Newspaper, placed by the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home for “
“Tenders for Coffins”. 

One such Advertisement for the year 1939 read as follows. 
 
“Tender for Coffins” for Children’s Home, plain and mounted, in three sizes, must be 1” thick, made of seasoned white deal, clean and free from knots and slits, pitched and stained in large, medium, small sizes. Mounting must be similar make, but mounted with Electro Brassed Grips, Breast and Crucifix.”

These advertisements appeared sporadically indicating that deaths were a regular occurrence in Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home. 

A staggering number of Babies and Children lost their lives in Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home. The following figures are shocking;-

For the years 1925 - 1926, 57 Babies and Children, aged between one month and three years, (plus two, aged six and eight years) died in the Children’s Home.

Of this number, 21 died of measles, other causes were convulsions, gastroenteritis, bronchitis, tuberculosis, meningitis, and pneumonia. 

Another outbreak of measles for the months November to December in 1936, took the lives of 22 Babies and Children, all under 3 years of age. 

For the years 1930 to 1960 (when the last death was recorded), 

Other causes of death were as follows; pertussis (otherwise known as whooping cough), anaemia, influenza, nephritis (kidney inflammation), laryngitis, congenital heart disease, enteritis, epilepsy, spinal bifida, chicken pox, general oedema (dropsy), coeliac disease, birth injury, sudden circulatory failure, and fit. 

Measles became less of an epidemic. Most of these Babies and Children, were under three years old. 

The Tuam Cemetery Register of Tuam’s Town in County Galway is now in the keeping of Galway County Council. Only two of the Children who had died in Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, were registered in this book, and have been buried with their families. 

If the Tuam Town Cemetery Register, records only 2 Children from Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home that were buried, in Tuam’s Town Cemetery, then it begs the bigger question- 
“Where were all the other 794 Babies and Children buried”? 

When the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home  were asked did they keep a Register Record of the Babies and Children who died in their Mother and Baby Home, and more important where were these other 794 Babies and Children Buried. 

The Bon Secours Sisters said when contacted that they did not have any Death Records on Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, that when they left Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home in the 1960s, that all their Records were handed over to Galway County Council. 

Galway County Council later handed over Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home Records to the Western Health Board in Galway. 

But the Western Health Board in County Galway say that they have no knowledge of any Birth and Death Register for Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home.

In fact the Western Health Board now say that the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home never gave them any Birth and Death Register of the Babies and Children, born or died in Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home. The Western Health Board also say that Galway County Council never gave them any Records from the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home. 

The Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home also say that they had no knowledge of any Babies and Children flushed into or disposed off into a Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home that they ran. 

The Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home also told the local An Garda Síochána that the Babies and Children in the Septic Tank were Famine Children. 

Of course the local An Garda Síochána of Tuam Town in County Galway would always believed the Holy Nuns. 

The Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home also told the local newspapers, the national newspapers and the international newspapers and world media, that the Babies and Children in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home that they ran were simply Famine Children.

The Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home also hired the biggest PR Firm in Ireland, run by Terry Prone that the Babies and Children in the Septic Tank were Famine Children.

The Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home knew that all this was a lie. 
So, it begs that question;-

Why would anybody believe anything the Bon Secours Sisters say, in regarding Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home Records, or the Septic Tank.

These 796 Babies and Children in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home were innocent victims of the Catholic Church’s regime. This was a cleansing' of mentally, physically disabled Babies and Children by the Bon Secours Sisters who ran Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home in County Galway. 

These same Babies and Children in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home were part of a program aimed at “cleansing” the Irish gene pool of those the Irish Catholic Church deemed unfit for a master race of  pure Irish Catholics.
Again I must quote the Irish Catholic Bishops, who said in the late 1940s;- 
 
1. ”There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about our duty to preserve the purity of Irish motherhood through the sanctity of holy matrimony, according to the rites and traditions of the Irish Catholic Church.
 
2. “We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.” in eliminating this scourge from our pure Irish society, these unwed women, and their filth, their offsprings.’ 
 
The Irish Catholic Church used various methods to dispose of the corpses of their victims, the vulnerable Women and Children, who were enslaved in their Religious run Concentration Camps, like, The Mother and Baby Homes, The Magdalene Laundries, The Industrial Schools and Orphanages of Ireland. Who in the eyes of the powerful Irish Catholic Church, where the scourge, the filth of a pure Irish Catholic Society. 
 
These Babies and Children disposed of in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, County Galway, Ireland, will hopefully never again vanish completely from the consciousness of Ireland. 
 
The Babies and Children disposed of in the Septic Tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, County Galway, Ireland was really a profound contempt for human life, a grotesque crime, committed by both the Irish Catholic Church and the Bon Secours Sisters, plain and simple. 
 
Owen Felix O’Neill