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The Justice for Magdalenes campaign group has discovered that women were transferred from State-funded mother and baby homes to Magdalene laundries, where they were held against their will and without their children.
The group said the evidence strengthens the case for an immediate State apology and compensation to former detainees.
Last year the UN Committee Against Torture strongly criticised the Government’s failure to apologise to and compensate former detainees of the State’s 10 Catholic-run Magdalene laundries.
Today some 500 pages of testimony – gathered in recent months from 13 survivors – was given to the McAleese Committee, which was established by the Government in response to the UN’s criticisms.
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