Full scale of illegal adoptions remains unknown says Health Minister

Mathiasdermody, your mother, God bless her, had the SIN'S OF THE CHURCH TRANSFERRED UPON HER. How many umarried mothers carried clergy's infants in their womb and where are they today, bearing the stigma of "bad blood of the "fr's" acknowledged amongst themselves. They're different to anyone else; you see one you see them all, no halo's

It is wonderful to see these people admitting that these adoptions were illegal and that babies were sold. In Australia we are getting petty little apologies saying how sorry that these things happened to young girls and their babies but noone is saying they had any part in it and that everything they did was illegal. Some Archbishops are coming out saying they never knew anything about it, non babies were adopted with Catholic agencies, they never knew any girls that got pregnant. Just how long do we have to put up with this stupidty and blatant lying. We have a Senate Inguiry going on at present to determine if these practices were illegal but many women have documents that have forged signatures, some didn't sign the correct papers, many drugged and had no idea what they were signing, girls not being allowed to see their babies, babies stolen and hidden awary and the list goes on.

I was one of the children caught up in this heinous crime by the Catholic Church. Born to a unmarried mother in Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, I was sold to an American couple to be raised as an American. The couple were innocent to a degree simply wanting a child they could not otherwise have. But I had duplicate birth certificates indicating I was born in Ireland to my american parents on one and that I had been born in the U.S. to them. Only through years of research did I find the truth. I was not an orphan. I was taken from my mother because she sinned in the eyes of the church and presented an opportunity for profit to the Abbey. As a result I feel my legacy has been stolen and my Irishness lost. There is no greater sinner in all of Ireland than the catholic church.

Let someone explain how US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts & his wife adopted two Irish children when Irish law prohibits the adoption of Irish children by foreigners.Under the Irish system of adoption, both private placements and private assessments are illegal. Additionally the 1993 Hague Convention on protection and co-operation in respect of inter-country adoption, forbids any improper financial gain from adoption. At one point, the British Sunday Times reported that there are apparently no records of Judge Roberts and his wife adopting these two children through official channels in Ireland and the matter is being looked into. The circumstances of the adoptions certainly raise questions from the perspective of Irish adoption law and whether Judge Roberts and his wife have broken these laws. Why did Roberts have to go to Latin America (some report Honduras) to adopt two Irish children? In other words, what conspiracy was hatched, who fraudulently adopted those children to illegally get them out of Ireland and bring them to Honduras and then give them up for adoption by Roberts? This was “child-laundering,” and happened before he was appointed to the Supreme Court. Evidently it was taboo for the Senate to ask him if he has as little respect for US law as he and his wife demonstrated for Irish law. http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2005/08/blondeness_and.html

To me, this is one of saddest stories to come out of Ireland. That the Irish government could let the Irish Churches sell their very own.

You don't really think the nuns were going to keep the evidence, they sold babies like they were a bag of spuds to the highest bidders, usually wealthy americans. Think again, are they going to tell the mother how much they got for her baby. This is going to be horrific for these poor women. This was not just happening in Ireland, any home being run by nuns should be investigated. Plus the charity claim numbers should be taken away completely from the catholic church worldwide. They have always been a money making business, we are never told how much they get from wills left to them, especially from older people over the years, farms, homes, money etc. I said before...the biggest mafia in the world.