Patrick

There was a tinge of jealousy there.

So there was pressure from her and I suppose society as well at the time.

It was kind of frowned upon even, like I'm only talking 1998, to be an unmarried mother.

So it was a big, big loss for all of us and we were all very, very devastated.

Very, very hard time and very, very sad for the whole family because we had lost a family.

Well, we had lost her.

family member but Sandra assured us that the people that got the baby was fantastic and they were able to provide the baby with a life that she could only dream about and envisage.

She was a good mother and she loved her baby but it's just she knew herself that it wasn't the correct environment.

to be bringing a baby up in.

And so it must have been very, very difficult on her to have to make that decision to hand over her baby after all that length of time.

She'd be seeing her, but she wouldn't be in her life.

But, you know, when you think about it, like, she could have gone off and reared her child in a house where there wasn't the love or whatever.

She didn't say, well, you know, I don't care now.

This is my ticket out of here, so goodbye and good luck.

And, you know what I mean?

I think it speaks of the testament of her, you know, where other people would just use that as the get me out of here kind of thing, you know?

I don't want to scream and brat in this house.

I think she knew deep down.

I spoke to the parish priest a number of years later on the telephone.

I asked him about her.