The Heart of Maine – Episode 5 – Kevin Battle

August 25, 2025

Jean Haney

Human Interest

In mid-20th-century Ireland, thousands of babies born in church-run “Mother and Baby Homes” were taken from their unwed mothers and sent abroad for adoption, often without consent, in a system that blurred charity, coercion, and profit. Battle was one of those children. Taken from his mother in Ireland and sold to a family in America, […]