There were Magdalene Laundries east of the Irish Sea as well. And the Protestant Barnado's homes sending children overseas, lying to their parents, lying to the children, to God knows what lives. And rehoming babies was going on in Spain and South America as well, the RCC again, and lies being told to mothers about their babies being born dead. It's not just the Irish.
It's when those in power think of those "beneath" them as somehow not quite as human as they are, and to be played with like toys.