Locked in a cell, tortured and abused:

Locked in a cell, tortured and abused: Magdalene Laundries survivor tells of her fight for justice. Elizabeth Coppin, 64, bids to make Government admit role as she takes case to United Nations.  A brave woman who was thrown into a padded cell, had her hair shaved off and was given a boy’s name by nuns in the Magdalene Laundries has taken her fight for justice to the United Nations.
Terrified Elizabeth Coppin was just 14 when she was taken out of the Co Kerry industrial school she had attended for 12 years and “locked up” in the Peacock Lane Laundry in Cork.

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