The Magdalenes

This is how it was in their orphanages... but much worst for us little children... they abused us with power and control... some of us were called the devil's children... because we had no one looking out for us... and when ever i went to the police station... they always took me back to the orphanages... the nuns would put my over the bed that night again... the punishment became the norm for me... because it happened every day and night... from 5 to 10years old... I had to wear a sack for a dress... which they cut holes in it for my head and arms... on it was written "New Zealand Sugar Refinery."...  Ann

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Imagine if you were abducted and held prisoner against your will: if your possessions were taken, your hair was cut; you were forced to wear a uniform and answer to a new name. For women like Gabrielle O’Gorman who were sent to the Magdalene Institutions in Ireland, this was a reality. Gabrielle tells her story, and revisits the now-derelict Institution she was sent to as a teenager.
This film, made by Nick Carew, was funded by the University of Kent, and completed with the help of the Women's Studies Centre at University College Dublin who led an Irish Research Council project on the Magdalene Institutions.

https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/magdalenes