The Lost Child of Philomena Lee
Book description
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like…
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Although I converted to Catholicism as a young mother, I had no idea this torture was undertaken in the 1940s by Irish Catholic nuns and priests who took in young teens (or younger) women who found themselves pregnant. They sold the babies to rich Americans while simultaneously making the young women work off the debt they were told they incurred from their imprisonment. The environment was hostile, unsympathetic, and heartbreaking.
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