Religious orders allowed over 2,000 Irish children to be used in medical experiments

by Patrick Counihan
June 07, 2014
    
More than 2000 Irish children in religious run homes were subjected to drugs trials in the 1930s according to a shocking new report. As the Tuam burial ground scandal erupts, it has now emerged that Catholic Church run homes and state institutions let the children of unmarried mothers be used in medical experiments.