Forced Adoption: ‘I was abducted and my baby kidnapped’ under British-Irish scheme | ITV News

In 1973, Terri Harrison was 18, pregnant and unmarried. The ultimate taboo in Catholic Ireland. She decided to flee Dublin and travel to London to start a new life, hopeful that she could get a job and safely raise her son there. Instead Terri was "abducted by a priest" whilst heavily pregnant and forcibly returned to Ireland to live in a notorious mother and baby institution, where her son was later "kidnapped" and put up for adoption aged five-weeks-old. Terri, now 70, was among thousands of young women who fled from the country to avoid the brutal Irish institutions, where unmarried mothers were often incarcerated for a minimum of two years. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follows ITV News on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on Facebook:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on Twitter:   / itvnews