IRELAND
Irish Times
Mary Carolan
Fri, Jan 31, 2014
The Sisters of Charity have asked the High Court to halt an action for damages brought against them by a woman who alleges she was raped and sexually assaulted over years by a groundsman employed in a Magdalene Laundry.
The woman claims she was so traumatised by the assaults that, to stop the groundsman accosting her on her way to and from school, she hammered her knee with a paperweight to such an extent she was hospitalised with a fractured knee and avoided going to school.
Her life has been severely affected by her experience. She changed from being a happy, normal child to one who became self-destructive, hated school, herself and people, left school early and developed alcohol, medication and relationship problems, it is claimed.
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