# Lots of tots rot!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 4, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053 "2014-06-04T19:38:43Z")
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### Author: ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/201 "2014-06-26T10:28:36Z")

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> [@ruadh](#):
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> The international media made some errors in their reporting of the story, but the fundamentals still appear to be totally true - there was an exceptionally high death rate at this home; the child were extremely poorly treated and suffered from malnutrition; the 796 dead ones are not known to be buried anywhere else; there are at least some bodies in the sewage tanks. That AP article relies on Brendan O’Neill from Spiked who is a well-known crank, and the Irish Times which has been desperately trying to bury this story since it broke.
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> [Here](http://izzykamikaze.tumblr.com/post/89770303451/vaults-under-tuambabies-site-are-part-of-sewage-system) is the most recent piece of research, which in fact suggests that the original story was pretty much true and those bodies quite likely are in the sewage tanks.

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> Other analysts pointed out that the decommissioned septic tank would be too small to hold many bodies. And the two men who had reported seeing skeletons in 1975 said, on reflection, that they doubted more than 20 were inside the concreted hole.

“There were only 20 skeletons in the septic tank” is not, as defences go, a compelling one.

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