(ANSA) - LONDON, 12 JAN - The story of the mistreatment perpetrated for decades, from 1922 to 1998, in religious institutes for girls and mothers in Ireland translates into a report of three thousand pages.
A massacre, it is counted, of around nine thousand babies and children, who died of neglect, malnutrition or untreated diseases, now carefully documented.
The report will be presented to the Dublin Parliament tomorrow by Prime Minister Micheal Martin, accompanied by an official act of apology from the state, which those institutions subsidized for a long time.
The story has been heavily investigated in recent years, up to the discovery of mass graves such as that of Tuam, in the district of Galway. An independent commission has collected countless testimonies, stories of experiences bordering on horror, made known so far only to survivors and heirs. The last of these institutes was closed in 1998. (ANSA).