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Mother-and-baby homes: Nursing homes used for 'secrecy', panel finds

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Truth Recovery Independent Panel is seeking testimony and gathering evidence about mother-and-baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses.

Panel co-chair Professor Leanne McCormick said there is evidence of private nursing homes being used to house pregnant mothers whose babies were then adopted.

It is thought at least 10,500 women were sent to the institutions in Northern Ireland between the 1920s and the 1990s .

More than a hundred people have so far come forward to the panel.

There were more than a dozen such mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland .

Three of them had Catholic -run workhouses known as Magdalene Laundries .

A number were the victims of sexual crime, including rape and incest, and strenuous physical labour’ was expected of residents late into their pregnancies.

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