4 h. ago Excavation to begin at Irish mother and baby home where 796 infants were buried in septic tank

Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chambers of of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway

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4 d. ago Excavation to begin at Irish house of horrors mother and baby burial site where 800 child corpses were hidden

International experts will join Irish counterparts to uncover an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in Tuam in western Ireland

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5 d. ago Newborn baby died after mother was left to give birth alone on NHS hospital ward by midwives and doctors, inquest told

Liliwen Iris Thomas was born at the University of Wales Hospital but died just hours later after her mother's cries for help were ignored during labour.

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5 d. ago Baby died after mum left to give birth alone in one of UK's biggest hospitals

A coroner ruled that Liliwen Iris Thomas died as a result of a 'hypoxic brain injury following an unattended delivery' after her mother Emily Brazier delivered her without any midwives present at University of Wales Hospital

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5 d. ago Charlotte Dawson reveals bikini fail in candid post as she jets off on child

The mother-of-three, 32, who welcomed baby Gigi Dawson Sarsfield in March, headed to Mallorca with her fiancé Matt Sarsfield over the weekend to celebrate his mum's 60th birthday.

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5 d. ago Baby died after mother was left to give birth alone in Wales' biggest hospital

An inquest into the death of Liliwen Iris Thomas heard her mother was left alone for an hour. She managed to cry for help and it was discovered that her baby daughter had already been born

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6 d. ago Excavation begins for remains of 800 infants at Ireland home

The remains of 802 children were buried at the church-run home for unmarried mothers from 1925 to 1961

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6 d. ago A baby born to a brain dead mother: this is the horror of abortion bans | Moira Donegan

Adriana Smith was legally dead for months, but kept on life support in Atlanta because she was pregnantOn Friday 13 June, a baby was born in an Atlanta hospital to a woman who had been dead for four months. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Black nurse and mother, was declared brain dead in February after blood clots formed in her brain. Legally, and by all meaningful measures, she was dead then: the woman who loved her family, laughed with her friends, comforted her son, helped her colleagues and cared for her patients was gone then, and was never coming back. But the state of Georgia, and the administrators of the hospital where she was declared dead, kept her corpse in a state of artificial animation for months. That’s because when Smith went to the hospital in February complaining of a headache, and later became unresponsive, she was about eight weeks pregnant. According to her family, doctors at Emory hospital, in Georgia, told the family that the state’s abortion ban required them ...

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6 d. ago Stormont urged to remove ‘cruel clause’ in mother and baby homes Bill

Campaigners gathered at Parliament Buildings on Monday to press for amendments to the proposed legislation.

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7 d. ago Harrowing last moments of baby boy drowned in bucket of detergent by monster dad

Eliasard Moneus, 29, drowned his three-month-old son in a vat of detergent and left his body in a sealed bucket before going to the next room to viciously attack the baby's mother

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7 d. ago International experts join mass grave excavation at mother and baby home

Personnel from Colombia, Spain, the UK, Canada and the US have joined the team in excavating the mass grave at the site in Tuam, Co Galway.

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1 week ago Newborn baby found decapitated and dumped in bin bags as mother arrested

A major police investigation was launched after the remains of a baby girl were found in several bin bags at the rubbish plant.

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1 week ago Mother arrested after newborn baby girl found decapitated and dumped in bin bags

Police have arrested a woman, reported to be a married mother with kids, after the harrowing discovery of a dismembered newborn baby at a rubbish tip by horrified workers

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1 week ago Starving newborn baby left alone for days after mum died is rescued in nick of time

Police officers in Phoenix, Arizona, discovered a newborn baby "clinging to life" after the child's mother died and the infant was left alone in the home for several days

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1 week ago Tony Hudgell's mother is released from prison: Britain's worst parent who abused baby so badly he had to have his legs amputated is FREED from jail early

Jody Simpson, 31, was jailed in 2018 for 10 years alongside Tony's birth father Anthony Smith after they were both convicted of child cruelty offences.

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1 week ago Tony Hudgell's mother is released from prison: Britain's worst parent who abused baby so badly he had to have his legs amputated is FREED from jail after serving just seven years

Jody Simpson, 31, was jailed in 2018 for 10 years alongside Tony's birth father Anthony Smith after they were both convicted of child cruelty offences.

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2 w. ago Police rescue emaciated newborn baby from Phoenix apartment days after its mother died

Shocking bodycam footage shows officers forcing their way into the home and finding the baby alone on the bed

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2 w. ago Boy thugs threaten to 'kick baby in head' after surrounding terrified mother

Cops are probing the incident which is said to have involved three boys aged around 13.

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2 w. ago Mother pleads for help to fund Mounjaro jabs to lose weight for surgery...after 11lb baby caused her stomach to SPLIT

Abbi Smith, 31, from Thorpe Willoughby, north Yorkshire, gained five stone and an unsightly bulge after developing diastasis recti, a condition caused by her abdominal muscles separating.

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2 w. ago Heartbreaking video shows newborn all alone in apartment for a week after mom met tragic fate

Police arrived at the home, peered through an open window and saw the mother lying 'motionless' in the unit. But her baby was still alive.

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