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An 89-year-old survivor breaks his silence, recalling a chilling childhood discovery at Bessborough: stumbling upon an open grave containing what he once thought were dolls—now understood to be decaying infant corpses. His testimony, given under oath in 2019 and sealed until 2051, adds to mounting evidence of unmarked burials at the former mother and baby institution, where hundreds of infants died in decades of operation. His account, echoing another survivor’s 1950s memory, reignites calls for the Irish State to acquire the site and uncover the truth buried beneath its grounds.

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