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For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed Philomena had her child taken away from her in a convent in Ireland Anthony outside the convent before he was taken away The convent allowed women to see their children for one hour a day Philomena met the Pope while campaigning for Adoption rights Mary and Anthony in the convent before they were sold Jane and her mum were bought even closer by the tragic secret that Philomena had kept for fifty years, working together to find out the truth about what happened to half-brother Michael The children were looked after by nuns in the daytime Michael had visited the convent looking for his mother
But their reunion was prevented by nuns who sold him for £2,000 at three years oldPhilomena Lee, now 85, from Limerick, Ireland, was the inspiration behind the Oscar-nominated blockbuster - after she was forcibly separated from her son, Anthony, in an Irish convent in 1952.Brutal nuns took the illegitimate baby from her and sold him to an American family for £2000 while she was slaving away in the convent laundry.Ahead of the film being shown on BBC this weekend, Sun Online looks back at the incredible and heartbreaking true story.Philomena was sent to Sean Ross Abbey convent in 1952 after falling pregnant to a local boy at a carnival.Noticing her bulging belly, her aunt realised that she was pregnant and told her father who kicked her out.Ireland in the 1950s was devoutly Catholic, and children born to unmarried mothers like Philomena were labelled "illegitimate"- and the women were often forced to give the child up for adoption.While at the convent, Philomena was made to sign a contract which said that once born, her baby could be sold by the Catholic Church to a family looking to adopt.Feeling she had no other option, she signed it, but told herself it might never happen.After giving birth to Anthony in the convent, the 19-year-old spent eight weeks nursing before starting work in the laundry and doing the washing for the convent.Every evening she was allowed to go and see Anthony, “cuddle him and sing Irish songs to him and teach him little rhymes”.However, their happy life together at the convent would not last.When Anthony was three, an American woman came looking for a little girl at the convent.She was shown Mary, the daughter of Philomena's best friend, Kathleen.But, Mary and Anthony were inseparable and the American decided to take them both back to Missouri - despite already having three sons.One week before Christmas, while working in the laundry, a nun came rushing in to the room telling Philomena to come quick as someone was taking her baby.Despite running as fast as she could to save Anthony, it was too late.The heartbroken mum describes seeing “him in a big black car, with his little face looking out the window, wondering where I was. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.
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