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Like other women who gave birth at the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland, the nuns didn't forbid O'Flaherty's mother from seeing her new born son again, they just didn't tell her who her baby was, or that he was in the same building. The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters has heard testimony from survivors for more than four years. In County Cork's Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, infant mortality rates peaked in 1944 at 82%, according to records from the Department of Local Government and Public Health which were unearthed by Irish journalist Conall Ftharta -- who has extensively reported on the mother and baby homes. Now, activists worry the Mother and Baby Homes Commission could follow a similar pattern. While that bill doesn't currently cover the Mother and Baby Homes Commission's findings, activists say that it sets a chilling precedent for transparency and accountability.