IRELAND
Irish Independent
KEY files on the Magdalene laundries have gone missing, former senator Martin McAleese will reveal in a long-awaited report today.
An estimated 30,000 single mothers and other women were detained over a period of more than seven decades in the laundries operated by four religious orders.
However, it is understood that Dr McAleese’s report into the State’s involvement in the laundries won’t accuse any order of deliberately destroying or withholding files.
It appears that the records were untraceable despite concerted efforts to find them.
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