It
was Ireland’s hidden scandal: an estimated 30,000 women were sent to
church-run laundries, where they were abused and worked for years with
no pay. Their offense, in the eyes of society, was to break the strict
sexual rules of Catholic Ireland, having children outside wedlock.
Their “offense” – but it wasn’t a mere offense, was it, it was a crime. We know this because of what the passage says: the women were imprisoned for years. They got the kind of sentence a convicted murderer gets. They were locked up, for years, and abused and worked for no pay. That’s an extremely harsh prison sentence – for having children outside marriage.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2011/ireland%E2%80%99s-disappeared/
Their “offense” – but it wasn’t a mere offense, was it, it was a crime. We know this because of what the passage says: the women were imprisoned for years. They got the kind of sentence a convicted murderer gets. They were locked up, for years, and abused and worked for no pay. That’s an extremely harsh prison sentence – for having children outside marriage.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2011/ireland%E2%80%99s-disappeared/