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Ireland doesn't have a very good record on supervision of treatment of children at Catholic residential institutions. The fictionalized 2002 movie "The Magdalene Sisters" details abuse suffered by teenage girls (not even orphans, but sent there by their parents as sinners in need of redemption) sent to "Magdalene Asylums" run by a Catholic order, where they worked as slaves in laundries and suffered systematic emotional and physical abuse at the hands of the nuns running the "asylums." The Magdalene Asylums had were opened in the 1880s; the last one closed in 1996, though not as a result of any investigation.

http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/articles/magda...

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  I saw the movie and, though fictionalized, it differed little from accounts in a documentary film I also saw about the Magdalene Asylums.
  
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