We shouldn't let them get away with what they did

FAMILIES STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS OVER MISSING STILLBORN BABIES

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FAMILIES of stillborn children across Merseyside have slammed the way they were treated amid growing calls for a government apology.

One person told the ECHO they would keep searching for their missing loved ones until the day they died.

On Tuesday, a blessing ceremony organised by Wirral Council and a number of faith leaders across Merseyside for families who faced inhumane treatment over their stillborn relatives took place.

While some people have been able to find their loved ones decades later, others have no idea what happened to them.

Before the 1980s, it was understood to have been common practice across the UK that when a woman had a miscarriage or a stillbirth, hospital staff would quickly take the baby away. Families were sometimes told that if they quickly had another child and didn't see the baby, they would 'get over it'.

In Wirral and across the country, stillborn babies were often taken to cemeteries and buried in graves sometimes containing up to 60 or more children, or at the foot of someone being buried that day.

Thousands of children have been buried in this way across the country.