"I WAS TRAFFICKED AS A BABY"

9th November 2020

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Margaret "Maggie" Norton was illegally adopted at 3 days old in the early seventies in Ireland. The organiser of this illegal registration was high profile GP Dr. Irene Creedon, who ran a surgery in Carrickmacross in Co. Cavan. Described by many as a "formidable" woman, she took babies from unmarried women, organised for their child to be given to a family who wished to adopt, and signed their birth certs with their adoptive parents names and details - thus, erasing the child's entire past and identity. This was an illegal adoption.

In 2013, Margaret Norton who had been searching for her family for many years, lifted the lid on the scandal and from breaking her silence, discovered at least 19 people had been trafficked by Dr. Irene Creedon who was trafficking children up to at least the 1970's which was twenty years after the adoption act was implemented.

Dr. Irene Creedon's daughter claimed her mother was doing a "good turn" for the women who were caught in an unmarried pregnancy, however, she knowingly signed false birth certificates, meaning she knowingly knew she was breaking the law.

Mothers have since claimed they were giving birth in Dr. Creedon's surgery in Carrickmacross and being "put up" in a hotel across the road and given £20 before being sent on their way. Birth mother's were told to never come back and ask for their child and adoptive parents who requested information to help their child were all told clearly by Dr. Creedon, to "never darken" her door again.

She knowingly trafficked scores of children and her illegal activities may never have come to light, only for Margaret Norton. For 11 years she searched for her family.

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