Magdalene Asylum were institutions funded by the Catholic Church in Ireland in which young girls served a "prison sentence" for moral dangers for themselves and others. Moral offenses in the form of pregnancy outside of marriage, flirting with boys, and even being a victim of rape, brought these young girls to these laundries, with the legal consent of their fathers or family. The girls were brought without trial and were sentenced to forced labor for the rest of their lives. They suffered a barbaric treatment from the nuns and priests who led these institutions, justified by a conservative hysteria about sex. Magdalene Laundries destroyed about 30,000 women, and the last of these perverse institutions was closed only in 1996.
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