In the decades after the war, nearly 200,000 unmarried women were forced and shamed into giving up their babies for adoption in England and Wales.

This is the harrowing story of mothers still traumatised by the cruelty they faced for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and their decadeslong search for justice.

Between 1949 and the mid 1970s, thousands of women were sent away to mother and baby homes run by churches and the state places of secrecy, cruelty and even abuse where babies were put up for adoption or died through poor care.

ITV News has investigated one home in south Cumbria. Burial records obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that 45 babies are buried in unmarked graves close to the institution.

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