Posted on 06/21/2014 11:05:53 AM PDT by NYer
Edited on 06/21/2014 2:12:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Associated Press has issued an apology for its errant reporting regarding claims of a mass grave for children of unwed mothers on the grounds of Tuam Home, an Irish home for unwed mothers.
Since the disturbing story broke early this month regarding the Tuam Home for unwed mothers in Ireland, where 796 babies were purportedly “dumped into a septic tank”, the Patheos bloggers have been on the case.
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Ping
AP should just issue an overall apology for all their sewage.
Who was the reporter responsible for this hoax?
Between 1925 and 1937, 204 children died at the Home — an average of 17 per year. 17 deaths out of 200 children equals a mortality rate of8.5%. It is interesting to compare that with the rest of the country at the time. In 1933, the infant mortality rate in Dublin was 83 per thousand (ie. a mortality rate of 8.3%), in Cork it was 89 per thousand (8.9%), in Waterford it was 102 per thousand (10.2%) and in Limerick it was 132 per thousand (13.2%). (Source: Irish Press, 12th April, 1935).
These are very sad statistics indeed, but not surprising if you know the history of infant and child mortality in the era before anitbiotics (which would mean for the first 25+ years of the TGuam Children' Home existence.) Institutionalized populations, like orphanages, homeless shelters and the like, could have whole wards wiped out by influenza, TB, and gastroenteritis.
Also the historian Liam Logan (@limerick1914) who has done so much work in digging up the archives and sharing them, has discovered that the home never once left the hands of the County Council. In 1951, 10 years before it shut, the sisters were begging the board for a grant, saying that they were too ashamed to show councils part of the building which desperately needed renovations, the children were sleeping in attics in terrible conditions and the building were considered a fire risk. In a meeting in 1949, Senator Martin Quinn were told that the children were suffering as result of the condition of the building, to which he replied “I do not like these statements which receive such publicity”.
"First the verdict, then the evidence": motto, in this case, of Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, and yes, Fox News. And some others as well. They'll show up.
Seed planted. Mission accomplished.
It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.
Seed planted. Mission accomplished.
It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.
We told you so, yet you continued to spread the hateful lie.
Cleverly worded BS that doesn’t come straight their purposeful fictional indictment of those no longer among us to explain reality.
Not sure I understand what you’re saying here.
Any news organization this incompetent is not merely bumbling and inept, it is downright malicious. It should be sued into oblivion.
Those who want to believe nuns are in the business of murdering children will simply declare this “fake but accurate” and insist it’s genuine evidence of Catholic evil.
Schadenfreude.
Where are all the FR usual suspects offering their apologies for gleefully spreading this lie?
Will posters here issue apologies for their anticatholic rants?
Not holding my breath
LOL - you expect people with the maturity of screeching chimpanzees to apologize?
OOOPS!
Just when you thought Fox News and Salon could find something to agree on...
That’s alright, the anti-Catholic ghouls already had their Dumbocrat day and they’ll believe what they were told in the beginning without an ounce of critical thinking or research.
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