IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Fri, Nov 1, 2013
A woman who was one of the youngest in Ireland to have been put in a Magdalene laundry is to refuse any offer of compensation by the State unless her loss of an education is taken into account.
Maureen Sullivan (61) was just 12 when she was placed in the Magdalene Laundry at New Ross Co Wexford in 1964. Over the following four years she was transferred to another such laundry in Athy, Co Kildare and then to a school for blind people in Dublin.
As her employer of 15 years at Irish Skincare in Carlow Arnie Stevenson told The Irish Times :“Maureen was a child slave trafficked between institutions.”
Yesterday she said that unless the fact that she was deprived of her constitutional right to an education was taken into account in any compensation offer made to her, she would refuse it and pursue that through other routes.
Mr Stevenson, who is assisting Ms Sullivan in getting what he believes is her due, said they were seeking an apology from the State “for her lack of education as well as compensation for that and for trauma suffered as a consequence”.
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