IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Sarah Stack
Tuesday February 05 2013
MAUREEN SULLIVAN is the youngest known survivor admitted to one of the Magdalen laundries.
She was an innocent 12-year-old child when taken from her school in Co Carlow and put in the Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundry in New Ross, Co Wexford, because her father died and mother remarried.
Ms Sullivan said she was told that this place would further her education, but she never saw her schoolbooks again.
For 48 years she had been haunted by memories of a lost childhood and slave labour and is demanding a full apology from the Government and religious orders for stealing her education, name, identity and life.
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