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She handed her baby to a stranger — because she believed she had no other choice. In Victorian England, unmarried mothers had nowhere to turn, so they paid a fee to women who promised a loving home. One of those women was Amelia Dyer. She took the money, and the children died within hours. Six bodies were pulled from the Thames; the true number may run into the hundreds. When the law left a mother no way to keep her child, who truly put that baby in the water? #BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory #SocialHistory #HiddenHistory

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