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The UN Committee on Torture has responded to the investigation by Martin McAleese (centre) in to the Magdalene Laundries.
The McAleese report, warmly received by religious commenters here, stated that no evidence exists that abuse took place in the laundries.
This despite hundreds of pages pf testimony documenting incidents of of physical and mental cruelty available to Mr McAleese and his team.
Felice Gaer (top) head of the UN Committee on Torture in a letter, revealed in today’s Irish Examiner (above, not available online), to the UN representative in Ireland, writes:
The report lacks many elements of a prompt, independent and thorough investigation…specifically the committee has recieved information from several sources highlighting that the McAleese Report despite its length and detail did not conduct a fully independent investigation into allegations of arbitary detention, forced labour or ill treatment.
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