Gardaí are to investigate claims of infant homicide in West Dublin.

According to The Independent, a 53-year-old woman claims that she was raped by her father and another man and gave birth to a child when she was 12 and another when she was 14. According to the woman’s claims, the children were killed by her mother and buried in the back garden. Gardaí wish to speak to the mother of the woman as her father has since passed away. An excavation of the house is expected to take up to two or three weeks. “Despite the alleged crimes having been committed a number of decades ago, the investigation is very much live, and as with all cases detectives will have to investigate all the evidence before deciding on what way to progress,” a source said. An official Garda spokesperson said: "Gardaí at Crumlin Garda Station are investigating an allegation regarding the death of a new born infant that occurred in the 1970’s. As part of that investigation a search warrant was executed at an address in south Dublin this evening.