UNITED KINGDOM
SKY News
August 22, 2018
By David Blevins
A son speaks out about his mother’s detention by the Catholic Church and his fears his sister could be dead or have been sold.
Her only crime was becoming pregnant “out of wedlock”.
Delia Mulryan spent 30 years of her life locked up in a Magdalene Laundry.
The Catholic Church had secured lucrative government laundry contracts and detained thousands of women to do the work.
Peter Mulryan says his mother and the other women, immortalised in the film The Magdalene Sisters, were forced into slave labour.
“The poor mothers would be slaving from seven o’clock in the morning until seven o’clock in the evening.
“They couldn’t even talk to one another, communicate, laugh or joke. It was so sad an environment to be in,” he said.
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