Residents of mother and baby homes were subjected to involuntary detention, forced labour, and illegal adoption an alternative expert review of the commission's report has found. The independent analysis, due to be published this week, strongly rejects many of the findings of the Mother and Baby Home Commission's report and also blames the State for the abuses carried out in these institutions. Legal experts have been working on rewriting the commission's executive summary since March, but have said that the "worst flaws are beyond our power to repair". "The confidential committee testimony was anonymised, so that it cannot be reliably used to draw adverse conclusions about individual people or institutions. Details of redress scheme imminentIt comes as children's minister Roderic O'Gorman prepares to bring the details of a mother and baby home redress scheme to Cabinet.

Source: Irish Examiner July 12, 2021 05:26 UTC