I was kidnapped from my family

I was kidnapped from my family

Added on September 27, 2006 In Reply to FLORENCE HORSMAN HOGAN Saturday September 23rd 2006 .Some of the people that were sent to the Madgalen Laundries and Mental Institutions, were people that had been sentenced and charged, through the Courts to Irish Industrials Schools, as small children and babies. by the NSPCC and the ISPCC.We now know that the Religious Orders had an arrangement with the NSPCC and ISPCC who got paid handsomely to have children taken to court, because the Religious Orders needed children to do the work and keep them going. If the Religious Orders knew that they could not feed and clothe the children how did they keep going for so long.I, like many others that have got their files, where it shows that our parents had to pay, while we were in the Industrial Schools. If our parents did not pay this. they were harassed, charged and sentenced to Prison , yet we were made out to be Orphan's.The Religious Orders did not ask for Birth or Christening certificates.In all my childhood years i never saw a Nun do any menial work.The Nuns went into these Religious orders free of choice,we had no choice.Why?? did the Nuns keep the Women in the Magdalen Laundries in slavery, for decade after decade, surely F. Horseman Hogan is not trying to tell us that all the Women were bad or mad this was the Religious Orders option. We hear the argument that the Women were free to leave at any time, this is also untrue. Because if the were, why? did the Gardi go out to look for them and have them taken back to the Magdalen Laundries, were they such a danger to society? they needed the women, like they needed the children in the Industrial Schools, to keep the laundries going, because it was a nice little earner. This was a nice business that they ran. Did they pay the Women, if they did not. then, this is exploitation and SLAVERY. Yes i do not imagine that they were kidnapped, i know that i was kidnapped from my family.Kathy Ferguson