15,000 illegal adoptions in Ireland, mothers told babies had died Irish Minister for Children Katherine Zappone on Tuesday revealed 126 confirmed cases of illegal adoption in Ireland. Minister for Justice believes many other Irish adoption agencies could be involved.
by Frances Mulraney
@FrancesMulraney
May 31, 2018
Children’s charity Barnardo's has claimed that as many as 15,000 children could have been illegally adopted in Ireland.Children’s charity Barnardo's has claimed that as many as 15,000 children could have been illegally adopted in Ireland.
Irish adoption agency records are to be examined to determine the extent of the illegal adoption practice in Ireland.
The Chief Executive of children’s charity Barnardo's claimed, in May 2018, that as many as 15,000 children could have been illegally adopted in Ireland.
“This was a crime against these people and their mothers. Mothers who were told that their babies had died,” Fergus Finlay told RTÉ’s radio show Morning Ireland
The claim came after Irish Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone on Tuesday revealed that the Irish child and family agency Tusla has confirmed 126 cases of incorrectly registered births.
Irish Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone.4Gallery
Irish Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone.
These 126 people will now be contacted by social workers from Tusla to inform them that their adoptive parents were wrongly and illegally registered on their birth certificate as their birth parents.
Tusla revealed that as many as 79 people in these cases may be "entirely unaware of the circumstances of their birth."
The 126 established cases were registered by St Patrick’s Guild adoption society between 1946 and 1969. The youngest person affected is 49 and the oldest is 72.
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“I suspect every single adoption agency in the country is involved, that’s 150,000 babies, it would be amazing if at least ten percent of them were not illegal.”
“The bottom line is these people need their identity. They have a right to their background, who they are, where they came from. That trumps everything else,” Finlay added, stating that there now needs to be a thorough investigation sensitive to those involved.
“People have an absolute right to know.”
Over 100 institutions and individuals may have been involved in the illegal adoption scandal in Ireland
Poster Comment:
I heard that Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife have adopted two Irish children.