A highly specialized forensic geneticist will be employed to help identify the remains of nearly 800 babies buried at the Tuam mother and baby home between 1925 and 1961. Excavations are expected to begin next February, when work will commence to exhume the remains of 796 infants – many of whom were buried in a disused sewerage system.
The services of a highly specialised forensic geneticist are to be employed in an effort to identify the remains of nearly 800 babies who were buried at the Tuam mother and baby home between 1925 and 1961.
The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention Tuam is now seeking the services of a forensic geneticist with experience of working on missing persons programmes, who will provide advice on DNA technologies used to identify human remains. “The main objectives of the intervention can be summarised as affording dignity to the children who were manifestly inappropriately interred at the Tuam site by reburying them in a respectful manner and if possible, identifying them and establishing circumstances and causes of death,” the tender documents state.
They will be required to advise on “the challenges” that may be encountered involving the use of DNA to identify human skeletal remains in the context of the Tuam excavation.
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