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Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
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I was born in #Bessboro in the early 70’s.
A baby with dark hair & brown eyes had been ordered by a prospective #adoption couple.
I fit the bill.
At 7 weeks old I was placed with the couple.
My adoptive mother was a cold, unloving woman, I was bought to complete the ‘family’.
My mother was quite cruel, I have a 3rd degree burn on my arm from when my mother threw boiling soup at me for not eating it, the reason I wasn’t hungry that day was it was the 1st time my grandfather had #raped me, I was 8 years old!
I was brought to ‘visit’ my grandfather every week,
I was #sexuallyabused by him on every ‘visit’ for 4 years.
I miscarried at the age of 12, my mother locked me in my bedroom to miscarry alone, petrified I was dying as I didn’t know what was happening to me.
I grew up in a large, magnificent house, but it never felt like ‘home’.
Now when I visit #Bessboro I feel a great sense of calm when I walk the remaining grounds, I detest the sight of Bessborough House, but that’s a story for another day.
The grounds are soothing for me, when I walk & reflect on my life, the grounds bring me peace & comfort.
To me #Bessboro is the only ‘home’ I ever knew, the only place that I was loved by my Birth Mother when I was born.
Bessborough grounds must be saved & preserved for all who passed through those doors,for those born there, for the Birth Mothers, for those who died there …
for those buried there, for families of survivors.
It must not be built upon, #MichéalMartin stated that #Bessboro should’ve been bought by the state, he stated this while he was in power in the last government, he needs to uphold this now he will be Taoiseach for the 2nd time.