Category
Institutional abuse
Custodial abuse, forced labour, orphanage and residential-school misconduct.
Filed
2 entries- 1989 Mount Cashel Orphanage A 1989 Newfoundland royal commission established that the Christian Brothers of Ireland had subjected boys at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's to systematic physical and sexual abuse over decades, and that two previous criminal investigations had been suppressed.
- 1922–1996 The Magdalene Laundries For most of the twentieth century, four Catholic religious orders operated commercial laundries in Ireland that held women and girls in unpaid, indefinite confinement under conditions formally acknowledged by the Irish state in 2013.