Maggie O’Connor
Maggie O’Connor is a 70-year-old woman from Ireland who shared a deeply emotional story about her past as a mother at St. Mary’s Home in Tuam, where she gave birth to her first child, Mary Margaret, who died at six months old in 1943. After being raped and sent to the home at the age of 17, she endured the trauma of being separated from her child, a painful secret she kept for decades. O’Connor's story highlights the suffering of many women in similar circumstances during a time when society stigmatized unmarried mothers.
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O’Connor was sent to the Tuam home as a pregnant 17-year-old after she was raped by the caretaker of the industrial school she grew up in.
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