Calls have grown louder after a grave with 300 bodies was found in Oldham
Wirral Council wants to put records of hundreds of baby burials online. It’s believed this move will help make things easier for families trying to locate buried relatives who have been lost for decades, or whose parents may never have known where they were buried. Before the 1980s, it was understood to have been common practice across the UK that when a woman had a miscarriage or a stillbirth, hospital staff would quickly take the baby away.
She told the ECHO: “We need acknowledgement and we need an apology and we need all those records put online. I am so angry with the way we were treated.” Pointing to the experience of a family she had recently helped locate their child, she added: “They weren’t allowed to see it. Why weren’t they allowed? Who with a scrap of humanity would stop a mother seeing her baby? How dare they.
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