RTE obtains documents revealing that some hospitals left dead babies’ bodies in coffins, alongside adults, for burial http://t.co/MmZZwPH5Ko
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) December 11, 2014
It occurred in “exceptional circumstances” in the case of a new born baby who died in hospital and where the other options for burial, in a hospital or religious plot, “were not selected.”The remains of the baby would then be placed in a coffin of another deceased person, an adult.