The Kerry Babies Case

[Tictac]

This case has always shocked me. Practically medieval type witch hunt.

Basically the local slut was blamed for having a still born baby and the guards/church constructed a narrative that she had twins fathered by different men who she had sex with very close together.

I could never really understand it.

Beggars belief and its not that long ago.

Ultimately a new born child was killed and nobody ever found or the circumstances never fully explained.

 

[Henri LeHat]

yeah - it is a story you could not make up.
Good riddance to backward Ireland of the eighties.

 

[jeepers]

yeah - it is a story you could not make up.
Good riddance to backward Ireland of the eighties.

True. The gardaí would never behave like that today.

 

[Corcaigh32]

Not that long ago? It is at least 30 years ago surely?

 

[blackie]

True. The gardaí would never behave like that today.

They'd never Disclose anything sure.

 

[the puerto rican feen]

DNA samples of the whole of Kerry might solve it.

 

[thekeeper_79]

Not that long ago? It is at least 30 years ago surely?

30 years isn't a long time in my view

 

[Iancurtis]

I remember it well. Huge story at the time.

 

[TarboxBob]

I'd imagine DNA of those in positions of authority at the time might suffice.

 

[Smaug]

I can remember 30 years ago, as clearly as if it was only 30 years ago