A THOUSAND BABIES MURDERED.
ON HUGE BABY FARM IN STOCKHOLM. A despatch from Stockholm says: Revelations concerning the National Children’s Sanatorium have just been announced after an investigation by the authorities. It appears that the alleged Sanatorium was simply a baby farm on an immense scale, and that wholesale murders of babies were committed. The authorities are trying to trace Gustay Holmen and the woman who passed as his wife. He posed as a minister and she as a trained nurse and specialist in children and their bringing up. They secured numerous contributions, and especially handsome amounts were subscribed to the building fund. It is calculated that in the three years the institution had been running over a thousand babies had been received. Yet only thirteen babies are alive and well. These are the healthiest, fattest, and prettiest of those received, and they were used as decoy or show babies. They were shown to mothers and to all visitors and their pictures were sent out on the literature used.
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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 324, 15 January 1907, Page 5
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