The Baby Snatchers

De: Mary Creighton

Narrado por: Aoife McMahon

Mary Creighton was just 15 when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock in 1960s Ireland. She dreamed of a happy life with her child, but that was shattered when she was sent away to Castlepollard - a home for mothers and their unborn babies.

Stripped of their clothes and forced into gruelling work whilst pregnant, those who survived childbirth were made to force-feed their children for adoption into wealthy families. Babies were ripped out of their mothers' hands, but Mary refused to let that happen to her. She managed to escape only to later lose her beautiful daughter to social services and the meddling nuns...who always managed to catch up with her.

After spending time in an infamous Magdalene Laundry and having another two children snatched away, Mary sought to find her lost children and demand answers for the atrocities committed supposedly in God's name.

©2017 Mary Creighton (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

Hung on every word

Narrated and written so beautifully, this story will make your heart ache for all the women before you who were mistreated in Ireland. The author didn’t leave out one harrowing detail of her life’s ups and downs, a rare thing for women of this time or victims of this nature, who are often too pained to recall their own experiences and lost children. Creighton puts it best when she says true Irish protocol is to “sweep under the rug,” and she drags this (once inaccessible) information up for discussion, as should have been done all along.

Ridiculous

While I understand and Empathize for the women who were abused, the author made choices that she penned as being victimized. choosing to leave your children to go out drinking is cause for their removal. I am the same age as the author. there were many opportunities for counseling and treatment. her excuse that she was institutionalized and Brainwashed are just that, excuses. terrible book