European Side Note

The media has carried various online accounts of missing babies and abused children at an orphanage in  Tuam, Ireland many years ago. They portrayed the accounts as fact. But some online accounts dismiss the stories as a hoax. Dan Barry in the New York Times and Sarah Hampson in the Globe and Mail assert that the stories are true. Is there any way to know the truth?

NY Times   Dan Barry
Globe and Mail   Sarah Hampson