Het schandaal in Tuam kwam aan het licht toen historica Catherine Corless in 2014 de overlijdensakten van 796 kinderen vond, maar geen begrafenispapieren.

Forensic facility and mortuary set up near mother and baby home site where excavation works began last year

The excavation team in Tuam, County Galway, which began its painstaking work in July last year, has recovered a total of 99 bodies.