It sounds as if the Catholic Church handled this the exact same way that they did the child molestation cases. They denied the accusations and tried to sweep everything under the rug.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Magdalene_laundry
According to rational wiki, women who were rape victims or just 'too silly' could be enslaved. They had to be claimed by a relative to get out but the nuns told many of their relatives that the girls had changed their names and moved away.
The fact that the nuns got away with this and that the police even returned escapees to them is mind boggling
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That is just evil.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Magdalene_laundry
According to rational wiki, women who were rape victims or just 'too silly' could be enslaved. They had to be claimed by a relative to get out but the nuns told many of their relatives that the girls had changed their names and moved away.
The fact that the nuns got away with this and that the police even returned escapees to them is mind boggling
Quote:Some ended up there simply because they were considered in moral danger. By the 20th century, unwed mothers, rape victims and generally "wayward" women were considered eligible inmates.
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Quote:One reason women and girls who were considered ugly or silly were sent to the asylums was because, supposedly, they were vulnerable to seduction, and men were vulnerable to temptation by them. Physically or mentally handicapped women and girls were not sent to Magdalene laundries. These women would certainly seem to be as vulnerable to seduction as the unattractive or silly. However, these disabled women would not be capable of washing clothes. Since the Church could not profit from their unpaid labour, and would have had to pay to provide for them, they were not institutionalized.
That is just evil.
