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30 March 2016

Convent paid 'pocket money' to laundry survivors to pack toys as recently as 2012

Don't you believe it... the nuns would not be paying their slaves... out of their own pockets... they would be receiving money from these same... multinational toy manufacturer Hasbro... who provided materials for packaging... and residents involved would receive payment in return... cheap labor is what the nuns know well about... when we worked for them in our teens... the government paid for our keep... and the 16hours per-day that we slaved for them...worked from 5am to 8pm at night... seven days a week... year in and year out... not a day off... even when we were sick... we saw not a penny of that money...  Ann
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Women resident in the Good Shepherd Sisters convent in Waterford were given 'pocket money' in exchange for packing board games as recently as 2012, the Sunday Times reports.
The paper says many of these women are survivors of Magdalene laundries who continued to live in sheltered housing after their closure.

http://www.newstalk.com/Convent-paid-pocket-money-to-laundry-survivors-to-pack-toys-as-recently-as-2012