The world is finding out about the abusive Catholic "Magdalene Laundries" institution where criminal nuns abused and tortured thousands of women in Ireland, exploited them for free labor and even stole their children from some of them, when in fact, the unwed mothers had turned to the nuns for "help", little did they know they would be incarcerated in these concentration camps and their child would be snatched from them and sold into adoption.Magdalene asylums were institutions from the 18th to the late-20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity. 
Asylums for such girls and women and others believed to be of poor moral character, such as prostitutes operated throughout Europe, Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States for much of the 19th and well into the 20th century. The first such asylum in Ireland opened on Leeson Street in Dublin in 1765, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.
Asylums for such girls and women and others believed to be of poor moral character, such as prostitutes operated throughout Europe, Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States for much of the 19th and well into the 20th century. The first such asylum in Ireland opened on Leeson Street in Dublin in 1765, founded by Lady Arabella Denny.
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