не так уж и давно на самом деле... десятки лет назад... еще живы те, кто это сам пережил
1996 - насколько давно это было ?Girls who had become pregnant, even from rape, girls who were illegitimate, or orphaned, or just plain simple-minded, girls who were too pretty and therefore in "moral danger" all ran the risk of being locked up and put to work, without pay, in profit-making, convent laundries, to "wash away their sins."
They were completely cut off from their families, and many lost touch with them forever.
Stripped of their identities, the girls were given numbers instead of names. They were forbidden to speak, except to pray. If they broke any rule or tried to escape, the nuns beat them over the head with heavy iron keys, put them into solitary confinement or shipped them off to a mental hospital.
Over a period of 150 years, an estimated 30,000 women were forced into this brutal penance, carried out in secret, behind high convent walls.
Towards the end of the 20th century, the laundries began to close, as the power of the Church in Ireland diminished and as social attitudes became less puritanical. Incredibly, the last Magdalene laundry to shut down was in 1996.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129865&page=1
In many cases the women are embarrassed, afraid of ending up on trial, or they fear authorities will uncover other infractions such as visa breaches or drinking alcohol without a licence, said Iman Ouaddani, a lawyer with the Abu Dhabi-based firm Al Otaiba. Arab women are also less likely to report sexual assaults to police owing to concerns that the allegations could damage their family's reputation and because of the distress involved in describing the attack to investigators, said a Dubai lawyer, Mohammed Abdullah al Redha.No victim of rape can turn up at a police station and prove without a shadow of a doubt that they have been raped. If women think there is a danger they could be sent to prison unless they can 100 per cent prove it, obviously it's going to stop them from going and making a complaint. It is a difficult enough process to go through to report a rape, without having the threat of prison hanging over you![]()
... в том, когда тыкают пальцем в чужой огород, когда в своем всё прити мач то же самое. (Птиц)
Почему в "то же время"? До 90-х годов такое было.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_asylum
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