UN calls for Magdalene laundries investigation, demands Vatican turn over child abusers to police

A UN watchdog has called for an investigation of the Magdalene laundries so that those responsible for abusing children could be prosecuted and to allow "full compensation be paid to the victims and their families".
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said the Catholic Church had not yet taken measures to prevent a repeat of cases such as the Magdalene scandal, where girls were arbitrarily placed in conditions of forced labour.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0205/502368-vatican-abuse/