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Associated Press: Remember That Story About Nuns Stuffing Kids’ Bodies in a Septic Tank? Never Mind.

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Remember the cock and bull story about the bodies of kids being stuffed into a septic tank by nuns who ran a home for unwed mothers in Tuam, Ireland?  If you do, the Associated Press really wishes you would forget all about it.

 

 

DUBLIN (AP) — In stories published June 3 and June 8 about young children buried in unmarked graves after dying at a former Irish orphanage for the children of unwed mothers, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that the children had not received Roman Catholic baptisms; documents show that many children at the orphanage were baptized. The AP also incorrectly reported that Catholic teaching at the time was to deny baptism and Christian burial to the children of unwed mothers; although that may have occurred in practice at times it was not church teaching. In addition, in the June 3 story, the AP quoted a researcher who said she believed that most of the remains of children who died there were interred in a disused septic tank; the researcher has since clarified that without excavation and forensic analysis it is impossible to know how many sets of remains the tank contains, if any. The June 3 story also contained an incorrect reference to the year that the orphanage opened; it was 1925, not 1926.

A rather churlish correction that does not indicate how they managed to get so many factual matters, and others they neglected to mention, wrong.  Of course, the explanation is quite simple:  ignorance and bigotry are hell on good reporting.  Don’t hold your breath waiting for the major media outlets that screamed this story across the world to even note this correction.

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Pinky
Pinky
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 9:28am

To review: Ireland exists. Everything else stated in the article is unsubstantiated or proven incorrect. (Although, thinking about it, saying that “Ireland existed in the 1920’s” could be debated. So there were no confirmed facts in the article at all.)

Art Deco
Art Deco
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 9:36am

A rather churlish correction that does not indicate how they managed to get so many factual matters, and others they neglected to mention, wrong.

They hired okupiers.

Foxfier
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 9:49am

No mention that locals knew there was a baby graveyard in a slightly different area, that at least one expert’s response was that it sounded exactly like a specific type of mass grave that was used for re-burial of plague victims found during construction, that they misrepresented what the gal who figured this out SAID…..

*sigh*

Not like I expect anything different, but oy.

Kmbold
Kmbold
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 11:18am

Let us look at the bright side. At least the “reporter” did not suggest the possibility of the nuns first dining on the little babes.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 2:52pm

At least the “reporter” did not suggest the possibility of the nuns first dining on the little babes.

That’ll be next time this happens.

TomD
TomD
Sunday, June 22, AD 2014 5:04pm

Does Ireland exist? It looks to me like just another place where atomized individuals are pursuing happiness by any means possible. They will end up as sad and lonely as people anywhere else. The only difference is they will have a brogue.

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Monday, June 23, AD 2014 8:03am

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Micha Elyi
Micha Elyi
Monday, June 23, AD 2014 6:34pm

Is everything the Establishment Media says about the Catholic Church a lie?

Maybe not, but it’s a good working theory.

ChasC
ChasC
Monday, June 23, AD 2014 10:38pm

“A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.” Journalists are not interested in printing the truth, just sensationalism, who cares if it’s true or not. Them Catholics deserve it.

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