Parents of babies found in mass grave in UK town were told 'pretend nothing has happened' A mass grave of babies' bodies has been discovered just yards away from where more than 250 tragic infants were found in another unmarked burial site.
The first grave was found holding the bodies of 145 babies, 128 children, and 29 adults along the cemetery's south-eastern wall.
The graves were created as part of a common practice that saw stillborn babies taken from their mothers, who were told they would be buried with a "nice person" in an adult grave.
The new site was found at Royton Cemetery in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where in September it emerged there were mass graves holding hundreds of bodies.
It isn't yet clear how many babies' bodies are in the second grave, which is located along the northern wall behind the chapel building.
