Survivors of Britain’s forced adoption scandal have gathered in Cumbria to remember children who died in church run institutions and were buried in mass unmarked graves.
It comes after an ITV News investigation last year discovered that 45 babies had died at a former Church of England home for unmarried mothers and were buried in secret in a mass unmarked grave in Kendal.
The Bishop of Carlisle Rev Rob Saner-Haigh unveiled a memorial garden at Parkside Cemetery and described St Monica’s mother and baby home as a place of "pain, rejection and heartache".
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