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Ireland Says 9,000 Babies Died in Catholic Homes but It Was Society’s Fault Not the Church

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From 1920s to the 1990s thousands of pregnant unwed mothers were sent to 18 church-run state homes where their babies were either given up for adoption or died mysteriously.

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