On 12 January, Ireland published an investigation confirming that the abuse of women and minors in eighteen reception floors of the Catholic Church was systematic and tactical in nature. The report points out that 9,000 children died in these church-dependent homes between 1922 and 1998, and highlights the precarious living conditions and evictions suffered by single and widowed children and women.

Although they have not collected evidence of physical sexual violence, the research shows that the "emotional abuses" suffered by women and children were common in the child population.

Immediately, the Irish Prime Minister, Micheal Martin, apologized for the actions carried out on the island. The following day, again, at a hearing in the Dublin Parliament, you reiterated your request for forgiveness.

In 2014, the way was opened to learn the truth about these abuses. In that year, historian Catherine Corless found death records for nearly 800 children who lived in the house of nuns Bon Secours in Tuam, but only burial documents for two of them. Hundreds of buried human remains were found on the excavations on the convent grounds. On the road to clarifying these abuses of the Catholic Church, this report by Mother and Baby Homes Commision of Investigation is essential.

Report of 2,865 pages, six years of research work

The investigation, developed by Mother and Baby Homes Commision of Investigation (Commission of Research on Mother and Child Homes), consists of a document of 2,865 pages, which includes a six-year investigation and interrogation.

The study focused on 18 reception centres, which received a total of 56,000 women and 57,000 children between 1922 and 1998. In 1998 it closed a space of this tipo.El study highlights the precarious living conditions, malnutrition and the most common diseases suffered by single children and mothers in these organizations.

According to the report, in the years 1945 and 1946, for example, 9,000 children died in the institutions because of the crisis.Dice that malnutrition and diseases were common, the mortality rate was very high: In 1945 and 1946, for example, the infant mortality rate for single mothers was almost twice the Irish average.