Actually, relatively few of the children were buried at the memorial. That was some of the immediate pushback against the original article: that it was edited to sound as if 800 babies were found, when in reality, it was a much smaller amount. I would think it’d only be up to the Bon Secours sisters to bury them if no-one else would receive the bodies.
You’re rhetorically asking a question of FReeper Catholics as if we’re all at Tuam and could POSSIBLY answer. The fact that the press doesn’t provide that answer doesn’t mean anything. Can you prove to us that you’re not a Broney?
As far as I can tell much of this story is based on someone claiming to have seen remains of a baby in a septic tank. A lot of this is just sensationalism. The mortality rate at the home would be less than the whole of Ireland at the time.
Why they were buried in the field and did they properly register the deaths is the question.
I don't have to prove that I am not a Broney.
Asking me of this would be asking me to prove a negative, which is nigh impossible.
It would be like asking an atheist to prove that God does not exist.
I believe that God exists, and that Christ rose from the dead, etc, but it is not another person's responsibility to prove that God does not exist or prove that Christ did not rise, as asking that of someone else would be asking them to prove a negative.
I am not asking anyone to prove a negative though, and wouldn't.
If the Bon Secours sisters can provide death records to the Tuam County registry for 796 dead children, then why can't they keep the BURIAL RECORDS (caps for emphasis only) for where ALL these 796 children are buried at?
The onus (burden of proof) is upon them (either the Bon Secours or the RCC in general) to provide the positive for the burial records.