IRELAND
Washington Times
DALLAS, February 7, 2013 ― Sinead O’Connor reveals to the Irish Times, Patrick Counihan, her imprisonment in the Our Lady of Charity Laundry in Dublin. As previously reported here at the age of fifteen, the Irish singer was arrested for shoplifting.
She was trapped in intolerable conditions for eighteen months until her father secured her freedom.
O’Connor tells the Irish Times:
“We were girls in there, not women, just children really. Moreover, the girls in there cried every day.It was a prison. We didn’t see our families, we were locked in, cut off from life, deprived of a normal childhood.
“We were told we were there because we were bad people. Some of the girls had been raped at home and not believed.One girl was in because she had a bad hip and her family didn’t know what to do with her.
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