Dismissive response from the Irish justice department and Laura Collins reply.

14  October 2015

Dear Ms Collins

I  have  been  asked  by  the  Minister  for  Justice and Equality, Frances
Fitzgerald,  T.D. to refer to your letter handed into this Department on 22
September,  2015 in which are raised a number of issues concerning the past
treatment  of  women and children in institutional care in Ireland.  I also
refer to your subsequent email dated 29th September 2015.

At  the outset, I wish to advise that, with regard to your peaceful protest
on  22nd September, it is the Department’s standard practice for safety and
security  reasons  to  ensure  that  the front doors of the building remain
closed  during protests.  Where a letters is intended for the Minister, the
Garda  on  duty  outside  accepts  delivery  and passes it, via the service
staff,  to  the  Minister's  Office.  This  is  what happened on the day in
question and there was no intention to cause upset to the protestors.

The  Minister  also  notes  your  comments  regarding your peaceful protest
outside  Dáil  Eireann  and  your  experience  with  a  member  of An Garda
Síochána.  The  Minister advises that if you have been directly affected by
what  you  believe  is  misconduct of a member of An Garda Síochána you can
complain  to  the  Garda Ombudsman.  You can do this by sending an email to
complaints@gsoc.ie

The  Minister  has  noted the comments and testimony provided in the letter
and  appreciates that past treatment of some of those in institutional care
in  Ireland  in  previous decades has caused considerable hurt to survivors
and  to  their  families.   Over the past number of years there have been a
number  of reports and investigations that have uncovered the truth of what
occurred   in  these  institutions  and  a  number  of  schemes  have  been
established.

You will know that the Residential Institutions Redress Board Scheme, which
is  under  the  remit  of  the Department of Education, provided redress to
those  who  had suffered abuse while in residential care as children in 130
specified institutions.

You  will  also be aware that following on from publication of the McAleese
Report,  which  looked  at the State’s involvement with Magdalen laundries,
the  Taoiseach  made  a  public  apology  in  Dáíl  Eireann. The Government
subsequently  asked Justice John Quirke to advise on an appropriate redress
scheme  and  his  report  on  the  establishment of an ex gratia Scheme and
related  matters  for  the  benefit of those women who were admitted to and
worked in the Magdalen Laundries was published in May 2013.

Implementation  of  this  redress  Scheme is now well advanced.  Under this
scheme  the  women receive lump sum payments, enhanced medial cards and top
up pension type payments to ensure the remainder of their lives are made as
comfortable  as possible.  The Scheme as recommended by Judge Quirke and as
agreed  by  the  Irish  Government  is  to provide supports to the Magdalen
women:  it  does  not  contemplate  payment  to  persons  who may have been
indirectly  or  otherwise  affected  by  the admission of these women to or
their work within a Magdalen Laundry.

With  regard  to  Mother and Baby Homes, in February 2015, the Minister for
Children  and  Youth Affairs established a Commission of Investigation.  In
accordance  with  its  comprehensive  Terms  of Reference the Commission is
tasked  with  thoroughly examining the experience of vulnerable mothers and
children  resident in Mother and Baby Homes during the period 1922 to 1998.
The  Commission  has  set  up  its  own website www.mbhcoi.ie and this will
provide details on the work of the Commission and their contact details.

In  relation to your deceased Nan, Angela Collins, the Minister appreciates
that the situation regarding placing your Nan in another grave must be very
distressing for the family. However, she has asked me to explain that issue
is  not  dealt  with  by  her  Department  but rather by the relevant local
authority and involves very strict rules and regulations.

The  Minister  has also asked me to inform you that if there are individual
complaints  of  criminal behaviour the most effective way to deal with them
is  to use the existing mechanisms which are in place for the investigation
and,  where  appropriate,  prosecution  of  criminal offences.  There is no
statute  of limitations in this jurisdiction in relation to the prosecution
of criminal offences.  If you are aware of any such cases you should report
them to An Garda Síochána.


I trust this clarifies the issues raise.

Yours sincerely
Christopher Quattrociocchi
_________________
Christopher Quattrociocchi
Private Secretary to the Minister for
Justice and Equality
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Laura Collins reply to the dismissive email that answered non of the questions asked! 

14 October 2015.

To,

Christopher Quattrociocchi

My letters might as well have been completely ignored by your department as you have just emailed me with fabricated replies to non asked questions. If you had actually took the time to read my letters or the person who I had actually addressed it to, then you would have addressed the main key issues I actually raised with your department but I don't feel as if you didn't read it as you have mentioned points related to what I said but not addressed what I'm actually saying. 

First, I did not ask for you to explain what the women's entitlements are. I am already fully aware regarding what they will get and have gotten. I'm also more than aware regarding the apology to the LIVING magdalene women in 2013, which I had stated in my letters, if you took the time to read my letters and address the main key points then you would know this, that my mum attended the apology for the magdalene women in 2013 hoping for justice on behalf of her mother and for her justice for having to be made to visit the magdalene laundries for 11 years as a child. 

I mentioned the apology in my letter because it was another cover up to avoid giving full justice to all the victims created by the state and church. My mothers mother was taken due to prejudices and wrongly had her life taken. If my mother was murdered and we have proof of this. I would expect to gain justice for my mother! Like my mother expects full justice for hers! like I expect justice for my mother and nan! If my mother was taken from me, yet records state she cared and looked after all her children and no safe guarding was needed and I was taken for my family for no real reason apart from a corrupt government influenced by the church and their prejudices. Then I would want and expect and deserve justice! Why was the children of these women not excluded within the apology!? Why was the women who had their life's taken not even given an apology or even a minutes silence on the night? 

The magdalene apology was an attempt to hush other victims and fool the world into thinking the magdalene women have been sorted and given full justice, when they have not been as they excluded the dead and their children and I will make sure to make my voice heard regarding the corruptness within the apology and within Ireland!

When children like my mother was made from the age of seven to enter the magdalene laundries for 11 years of her life to witness her mother drugged and had her mums life taken due to neglect and prejudices and children who was taken off their mothers due to prejudices haven't received a apology or was included in the apology in 2013 and the criminals have not been prosecuted. That is not full justice for all those effected by the actions of the state and church and as a justice department who's meant to be there for the people, you cannot defend it and say that is justice! 

You have given answers to questions that have been already answered and again, if you read my letters you would know that advising us to contact the garda regarding the nun who sexually abused my mum and physically abused her, to be pointless. It has been over five years we had made our complaint to garda regarding the criminals, yet they are still being protected. They know where she is as I explained in my letter but they cannot bring her back to Ireland supposedly, which is a fail within the justice system, something your team should be looking into and supporting. Your letter would have been more beneficial to us if you actually took the time to read the contents of my letter. If you did, then you would have knew all the advise you had given, was not needed. It looks very much as if you have avoided my actual questions of concern and have filled your email with known information, so you can avoid my questions purposely as you were aware regarding the points.

You mentioned the mother and baby homes, again, you have answered something I didn't asked. I know there is a commission taking place and didn't need that information as I'm fully aware regarding the commission. What I actually stated is that all survivors entering the commission deserve full legal aid and should be supported fully with solicitors and even counselling and this should be confirmed to them! It would have been nice if you could have resured the survivors with knowing they will be supported fully as they are vulnerable people created by the state and church and shouldn't have to pay a penny to gain justice for something that was done to them wrongly and illegally by the state and church. That was my question, again, I stated there was a commission in my last letters, if you read them fully, then you would know that there was no need to inform me but I guess it does help to make you look like you have something to say in your email to look as if you replied. 

Regarding my nan, you mention the local council, again, if you read my letter you would know that I explained that we have done that and gained the permission of the council and of the graveyard and all Angela's family members. The problem I raised to your department is regarding the fact the letter stated we needed the churches permission, who owns the plot. Like I had said. We have wrote many letters to the church but we are being ignored. 

We are being withheld justice by those who are the criminals and who had taken my nan from my mum and family to use and abuse her for 27 years due to prejudices! Where is my Nan's and mums justice!? Where is the money that my nan worked for while she was a slave during them years! It has gone to fund a corrupt state and church, when it should be given to my mum as her inheritance! Nothing can replace the loss of your mother but it's worse when she has been wrongly taken from your life and her life was wrongly taken and still till this day we are refused the right to bury our relative in a single grave and give her back some form of the freedom she had taken. 

So I ask you, as a justice department, what are you actually doing to gain the people justice for those who have been affected or experienced loss from the state and church? Why are you even replying to emails with information that is no use and you know it's no use as I have explained the stages we are at? All the points you have mentioned, I had mentioned we have done it and that we are past them stages. So what is the next step to gain the deserved justice for my nan and mum? That is what you should have been answering if you actually read my letters, or is it because we do not have a next step? Have we completed every procedure there is to try fool and pretend to Ireland their is some form of justice system because from reading your email, you either didn't read my letter because then you would be aware regarding me knowing all the points I raised and would know the stages we are at but again, I don't feel as if you didn't you read it, you had read my letter and this is a form of a way to look like you had replied, when this is not a reply, it's proves that justice within Ireland does not exist, your are either ignored, or not paid attention to and treated as a fool, because everything you had replied with, is what I had made sure to inform you that I was aware of and I made sure to make you aware regarding the stages we are at. So why you felt the need to educate me on the magdalene apology when I know the ins and outs of it as I had to comfort my mother before the apology and after the shock and upset of not receiving an apology nor justice for herself or mother and I even attended Ireland way before the apology to help gain the apology with my mother and a group but I know the reason for your misuse of information, as I said, you just wanted to make sure to fill up your email. I'm surrounded around survivors and I have wrote regarding the magdalene apology and that involved informing others of their entitlements from the scheme, that excludes everything they get and I even personally held a joint protest with living women of the laundries on 15th July regarding changing the personal details on the medical cards. Again, that information was not needed and I didn't request it, like I didn't request being told to go to garda regarding the criminals abuse because like I included in my letters, my mum did that five years ago. Also like I didn't request for you to inform me regarding the mother and baby homes because from my past letters, you was aware that I'm fully aware regarding it as is why I brought it to your attention. 

I will be taking this much further, thank you for your letter, it really has proved to me that a justice department in Ireland is only there to pretend the to Irish people they have a justice system, your letter has made me feel the the need to take this much further then within Ireland because your clearly not capable of even replying to a letter and clearly the justice department is just there not for the peoples justice but they are there for illusion reasons for only the governments benefit, like your reply was an illusion to look as if you had replied. When it's very clear you've ignored my main points and wrote to me what I had stated in my letter and what I had already known. 

Its laughable for you to even say and think that I would try a gain justice for a common assault on 22nd of September 2015 made by a member of the garda and make a complaint regarding my treatment of being pushed. When the country cannot even give justice to sexual and physical abuse victims many of whom were children. They cannot even give justice to the family's who have had to lose a family member or mother due to the state and church neglect all started by prejudices! Which many of my mums records state! Your justice system is a joke for even cases of sexual abuse and murder. So why would I attempt to gain justice for a common assault. Clearly your state and their robots can do as they wish and get away with it. Over 300 cases were dropped against the garda and that involved women with serve facial injuries. Everyone knows the country's justice system is just as corrupt as the state and church. 

Ps: the department was aware regarding us attending on 22nd and was aware that we were peaceful. People who deserve justice and seek your help should not be treated as criminals, also taking into considering that the protest consisted of more children and women a member of the department should have came to the door and accepted the letter and not a member of the garda. It also would have been nice if the person i addressed the letters to actually took the time to reply and read the letters. Instead of you just telling them the main points and then her telling you what to say to the main points, which didn't even answer any of the questions I actually asked regarding the state and church abuse and the magdalene apology and mother and baby homes victims. 

Like the Irish state and church have failed my family, now so has the justice department. I look forward to your reply to my actual concerns if that is something your department is capable of doing. If you cannot address my actual points and reply with fabricated answers like you did in your last email, then please don't bother wasting yours or my time and treating me as a fool who will just accept the rude dismissive email of using already published information as your reply by your department because as I have said I will be taking this further above all off your heads regardless because your reply screams millions for the Irish justice system who is meant to be there for the people and sadly for those who seek justice and deserve it, we will clearly not get it through the department as there isn't a real justice system for the people, but that doesn't mean we will stop fighting for what your department claims to be there for. 

Regards, 

Miss, Collins. 

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     Prove that we had already requested

          Permission from the council. 

    Locked out of the justice department.

                     Grave injustice. 

     Over twelve years ago trying to put

     Whatever we could right for my nan. 

      22nd September protest, release 

Angela and give all the victims full justice! 

     

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Why is the Irish government protecting murders and rapists? But not protecting the victims.

The Irish government needs to answer some questions. Why is it still till this day they are funding parts of the catholic church? " where supposedly needed" as if they don't have billions in property and in profit. Why in a time where people seek for justice against those crimes and the criminals, why has the Irish government left them to get away with murder, sexual, physical and mental abuse? And yet they are still funding them and haven't even tried to prosecuted the criminals! 

      Justice 4 all magdalene women & 

                          Children. 

When the abuse towards the children and women came to light the church had said they can not afford to pay compensation to all the abuse victims, the government also didn't wish to "bankrupt the orders" although they have billions hidden within property and can afford for their nuns, some of whom was part of some scandals, they currently pay for them to stay in very nice care homes, fully funded by the orders. While victims that they have made with their own evil actions have been left homeless on Ireland's streets. Children who had their mothers stolen and experienced such vile abuse are a contributed cause to the huge amount of homelessness within Ireland. Vulnerable people created by the church, and funded by the state, they have been left to suffer. While the abusers have not been prosecuted and are still living their life's comfy and happy. While innocent people who was mothers, sisters, daughters, brothers, have had their life's taken or destroyed due to their selfishness and they don't even deserve justice in their eyes.  

      Justice 4 all magdalene women &

                          Children.

People have been left without important documents because they have been destroyed over the years because of the cover ups, so they do not have a real identity, they are left with nothing because everything they did have, including their mental state, was taken or destroyed by the state and church and regardless of the irish government knowing some of the factors of high homeless rates within Ireland would be due to the effects and losses the government and church inflicted on those people , but like they ignore giving people full justice, they are ignoring the homeless crisis and ignoring theirs and the church's responsibility within the crisis like they have tried to ignore taking responsibility for most of their mistakes for many years. 

         Dublin, Ireland homeless crisis.

Financial gain was the motivation for the church while they were operating the magdalene laundries, children homes, and mother and baby homes, it wasn't for charitable reasons. They were receiving funding on behalf of every women and child that entered one of their hell holes and was also selling their children for adoption to the UK and USA. They would also make the girls work in laundries for free to slave for the churches custom of local hotels, etc, some girls stayed their for over 50 years. The custom to the laundries was so wide spread they would even receive custom from ships who would take the orders over to other country's.

       Justice 4 all magdalene women & 

                          children 

The environment of these work places was very dangerous to the women who worked there and was even more dangerous to the children who were made to enter the laundries. Although big dangerous machinery was not what the women had feared, some women were forcefully drugged and experienced terrible violence from the nuns. Many women and also the women's children were part of many medical trails. Little baby's and women were given injections forcefully, they would also use brain shock treatment on some of the women. These trials took place within the indrustrial schools, mother and baby homes and the magdalene laundries.  The link between the state, church and pharma. Is very concerning, I haven't managed to gather information to say that the church was being paid to offer people for these trials but I strongly doubt they were doing it for free.

               Magdalene laundries. 

While they were giving out untested medication, they were withholding and refusing others of the medication they needed. Angela Collins was forcefully made a slave to the laundries, she was wrongly taken from her three children due to being a traveller and unmarried mother, although social records state that all her children were well looked after, they took her and made her work 27 years in a magdalene laundry. After 17 years of working there for nothing, she needed medical treatment and needed to have her womb removed, this was advised by the doctors but instead they left her without the treatment she actually needed and after years of suffering, ten years later she died of cervical cancer. Her body was then dumped into a mass grave with 72 other women. Angela was refused the treatment she actually needed to save her life but she was made to go through forced drugging and brain shock treatment.  

                 Angela Collins, RIP. 

Mary Collins, Angela's daughter wishes to remove her mother from the mass grave she is placed in and put her into a single grave and bury her properly. She had written for permission from the graveyard and was informed regarding costs and that it is possible to do and they know exactly where she is placed. She then had written to nuns and was ignored, she also travelled from England to Ireland to approached the nuns in person, which they said they will write to her. Which they didn't follow up. Mary has written many letters since regarding her mother Angela, but she has and still is being ignored. 

          Mary Collins and her family. 

Mary Collins and family had arranged two protests outside the Dàil in attempt to get the government to support them to gain justice and try put pressure on the church to do what's right but although the government funded the church to separate family's by taking good mothers from children and exposing them to sexual, physical, and mental abuse, they have not taken any notice. 

         Survivors united for justice 4 all! 

Why can the graveyard say it's possible with permission of the owners of land but the criminals who own that land, who took Angela life, can ignore the family completely. What are they hiding? Why do they not wish for the grave to be opened!? Do they fear there are more bodies in that grave then they stated? Do they fear being caught for another cover up? These are the questions I find myself asking when they refuse to give back a women's body to her own daughter so she can do what's right and give her mum back some of the human rights and freedom she had taken. 

             Letter from the graveyard. 

When is the government going to wake up and view the Catholic Church for what they really are. They are not charity workers and shouldn't be funded by the government in anyway, considering the riches they hold and also considering the fact you shouldn't be funding criminals. The criminals have been left to escape prosecution and have and still are been protected. When they have committed vile crimes on many innocent life's. Why are you protecting the criminals over the innocent victims? The only answer I get from this question is, like the church stole innocent women's children and sold them, like they offered children for trails, like the church had many laundries and many women working for them for free, it all comes back to money. 

       Survivors united for justice 4 all! 

Like the church don't want to pay what they have been ordered to pay to some victims of the abuse, the government doesn't want to hold a full investigation because they don't want to have to protect the victims and financially give them what they deserve due to the wrong struggles they have been made to experience because of churches and government selfishness.

       Survivors united. Justice 4 all! 

I have personally written two letters to the department of justice regarding the injustices people are still facing and regarding the 22nd of September 2015, protest. I have stated how close relatives should be allowed to rebury their family members and a full investigation needs to take place and lastly and most importantly they need to stop viewing the church as charity workers and start seeing them as the child abusers, murders and the rapists that they really are.

                   Survivors united 

We are still waiting on the reply from the justice department for both the letters but from the family's last experience of being in Ireland and being locked out of the justice department just because they peacefully wished to hand in a letter, or being treated as the criminals outside the Dàil by a member of the garda just from asking a question. The family strongly doubts they will get a reply because from what Ireland has shown on behalf of   themselves, they seem to not believe in real justice. 

  Locked out of the department of justice.

      

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    Treatment from member of the garda. 

                  

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Commonly assaulted and locked out of the justice department. Exposing Ireland's fake justice system.

This is a letter written to the mister Francis Fitzgerald regarding the injustice taking place within Ireland written by justice 4 all magdalene women and children.

To, the minster Francis Fitzgerald.

I'm am writing on behalf of my mother and nan and many survivors and supporters who attended the magdalene women and children protest.

I had personally written a letter on behalf of the children and women within Ireland who seek for their justice and their mothers justice. My nan lays in a mass with 72 other women and was a slave to the laundries for 27 years, although social records state that all her children did not need safe guarding and was well looked after they separated the family due to my nan being a unmarried mother and a traveller. After 17 years of my Nan's service the doctors advised she should have her womb removed and instead the nuns left her with the womb she had and she died of cervical cancer. Her death could have been avoided but they left her suffer a further 10 years and let her die and dumped her body into a mass grave.

My mum was put into a abusive industrial school from the age of 2 and half and from the aged of 7 she was made to visit the magdalene laundries for 11 years of her life to see her mother drugged and lifeless and in pain. My mum was allowed to enter the laundries because she was part of sick deal made by the nuns which was given to Angela, the deal was if Angela signed over her youngest daughter Teresa then she would get to see her daughter Mary, after years of refusing to sign the papers Angela knew this could be her only chance to see one of her children, so she took it. Which exposed my mum to more mental and physical abuse and have left long lasting mental and physical scars. Teresa was illegally adopted as my nan was not in a fit state to make a choice as she was used as a guinea pig as she was drugged with medication and was also being brain shocked. Angela my Nan's 2nd eldest daughter was made to enter another magdalene laundries at the age of 14. Once she left she sadly committed suicide after not being able to track her family.

My family wish to free my nan from the mass grave and rebury her in a single grave and give her back some form of freedom and a human right of laying in your own grave and for also my mum to have a place to pay respect to her mum where she is not always reminded by the pain and separation and abuse her family had to go through. We have written to the graveyard and they have said it is possible to access the grave and remove her and have given us a price and also criteria's which we meet but we need permission from the church to dig on their land, we have requested in person and by letter but we are ignored.

On the 22nd we held a peaceful protest with Dublin outside the Dáil, as soon as my mother and my daughter and family got out of the cab, we were shouted at by a garda to cross the road, I went on to nicely say we have arranged a peaceful protest today and held one on the 15th of July and we were no trouble, he then shouted at me to get across the road again and I ask why can we not stand on a public walk way, what was the reason and with that he keep shouting and used very aggressive behaviour and body language. I noticed unlike the police in London he did not carry a camera, so I got one out and asked why I can not practice my human right on a public walk way? He then pushed my back, which I got all on camera. I am disgusted with the way the garda is allowed to treat the people for asking a question of why they couldn't practice their human rights. I'm disgusted by the way he was allowed to use force only because I asked a question. I wanted to get his badge number and as I crossed the road I had to quickly turn back because he shouted if I came on this side I would be taken to the station! For what reason should I had been arrested? When I was a victim of common assault by someone who is meant to protected the laws made! He had no right to touch my body, a man is not even meant to search a women, let alone use unessersy force for no reason in front of my young daughter and my mother who has had to go through enough aggression within her life received because of the states funding!

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https://www.facebook.com/Justice4AllWomen/videos/721943917906549/

We carried on and went on with our planned march we approached The Lord Mayors house and they happily took the letter and photocopied it for us kindly and spoke with us outside and treated us as humans. We then approached the open doors of the justice department and as we approach the metal door slammed down and we were locked out regardless of them being told in advance of us attending. All we wished to do was hand in a letter and we was refused, like we have been refused real justice. Survivors looked crushed, like they have been refused justice their whole life, now a department who is meant to be there for them had also refused and rejected them, a department who is meant to be there for the people, not lock them out and ignore them.

      The mayors office taking the letter. 

I want to know what was the reason for them locking the doors? The excuse was they don't have them open during protests, well then I have a question why are you scared of the people you are meant to be helping and getting justice for? We were a peaceful protest seeking for justice, yet we are refused it, regardless of a department that claims to enforce justice.

         Department of justice locked. 

Criminals like a women who was reported by my mum and many other survivors during the Ryan's report has been able to leave your country and work within the UK in st. guys hospital and work around more vulnerable people. 5 years ago my mum made a complaint to the garda regarding the sexual and physical abuse received by this women and they had tracked her down now to America and failed and still is failing to bring her back to Ireland to put her on trail. Where is justice for the victims within Ireland, why are you protecting the criminals?

I hope you take time to read this letter and not ignore it or shut it out of your mind, like we have been ignored justice and shut out of the justice department although we were a small group that even consisted of women and children. Something needs to change within Ireland and they need to start acknowledging the victims and the state and church needs to apologise to the children and prosecute the criminals. Real justice needs to be given to the victims made by the state and church.

Kind regards,

Laura Collins a representative of justice of 4 all magdalene women and children, written on behalf of my nan and mother and a group of survivors and family members.

      Justice 4 all magdalene women 

                              &

                         Children 

To bishop John Buckley.

To bishop John Buckley. 

I Laura Angela Collins am writing to you on behalf of my nan Angela Collins and my mother Mary Collins. My mother Mary and her siblings Teresa Collins and Angela Collins was all taken from their mother Angela by the state and Catholic Church. 

My family were travellers and although social services reports states that all three of Angela's children was well looked after, you took my nan Angela Collins and forced her into the magdalene laundries in peacock lane, cork which was run by the sisters of charity. She worked 27 years of her life, she was forcefully medicated and was given brain shock treatment. She was advised by doctors that she should have her womb removed, the nuns took her back to the magdalene laundries and made her work a further 10 years before she died of ovarian cancer. She was refused the treatment she needed by your church as she was under your care. Angela was dumped in a mass grave in St. Finbars cemetery. 

My mother Mary at the age of two and half was forced into an abusive industrial school which was under the sister of mercy. She was physically and sexually abused and had to face racism on behalf of where her mother and herself had came from. She was made to visit her mother from the age of seven in the magdalene laundries where she faced more abuse, she visited her mother for 11 years of her life while under the churches care. 

Angela Collins my mothers sister was made to enter a laundries run by Good Shepard's covent at the age of fourteen. She left and after years of searching for her family she couldn't take no more of the past and pain and committed suicide.

Teresa Collins was adopted and still to this day badly affected by the separation of her mother and having to go to the laundries from her school to sing to her mother although she didn't know she was her mother, she would later find out that the women she would sing to was her mum. 

My mother has contacted cork council on behalf of removing her mother from the mass grave so she can place her in a single grave in her mothers hometown. She wishes to give her mother back the freedom your church had taken. She was told she would need permission from all living relates which she has and also the church's permission. She has asked verbally and written for permission from the nuns for the permission to dig on their land and exhume my nan from the mass grave but we have been ignored. 

I today, Wednesday 15th 2015, read an article regarding the church requesting to exhume and rebury "little Nellie" aka Ellen organ in a place where every one can pay respect because you view Nellie to be really religious and holy.

I ask you bishop why is my nan still classed as the scum you viewed her when you took her? When she is just an ordinary women and mother and a women who also practised and believed strongly in the religion that kept her as a slave. The religion that put their hands on her baby's body to cause scars and pain, the religion who still today holds her freedom from her and her family's right to pay their respects in a dignified place, 

Why does everyone get to pay respect to Nellie, yet my mum doesn't have a place to pay respect to her own mother without being reminded of the abuse and pain and separation you made her and her mother have to go through. I question the motives of the church with Nellie, when they ignore the victims they caused. 

My nan is not a fallen women, she was a strong women who fought for 27 years for freedom and sadly didn't receive that. She may not be a saint in your eyes, she may not be as holy as you would like her to be but she is my mothers mother and my nan. She was a human being and mother, a sister, a nan and a great grandmother and she may not matter to you but she matters to my family and she deserves to have justice and freedom. 

I'm reaching out to you to contact me and try and heal the process of which your church has caused for the victims. Please give my mother the permission she has always deserved to remove her mother from the mass grave which fills her with painful memory's and reminds of the lack of freedom her mother had and still has.

Kind regards, 

Laura Angela Collins

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/daughter-begs-return-mothers-body-6077750

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/survivors-of-homes-claim-government-is-stalling-31380853.html

A travellers soul in holy chains.

A poem I have written regarding the Irish government and Catholic Church and my nan who was forced into the magdalene laundries and had her three children stolen from her wrongly. 

Under everyone's nose the Irish state and Catholic Church was stealing women and children from their own homes. Some were families that were made to feel ashamed, so they handed their children to the church to learn what was classed as the right ways. Some was based on discrimination, which the whole nation had a place within. Upholding the catholic law, your a whore, if you've had a child out of marriage, you were classed as a lowest form of human, you were looked upon like a savage.  

Keep us a secret and try let no one know, take away our names and all we had known, take our children, then put our body in a hole! The ignored screams and cries of children & women behind the holy walls, No one cared because it was classed to be their fault. 

Trying to uphold the holy ways, everyone feared to put a foot out of place or they would be sent to an institution in holy chains. Mocked and abused, used for financial gain, many caused so much pain but still people choose to bury Ireland's shamefully ways. 

Women forced on medicated to keep them sane, women lay in mass graves, children made to go through pain, but still  today, the government is trying to hide their ways and no real apology is in place. They excluded the women's children although they carry theirs and their mothers pain. Their attempts to hide Ireland's shamefully past will not last, they may have tried to cast us away but survivors and their children's voices are here to stay. 

A travellering girl with a travellers soul, the travellers way was all she had known, gypsy blood is what run though her vains and they tried to make her feel ashamed, no women was aloud to live their life their own way, everyone had to uphold the holy way or they were sent to the magdalene laundries in holy chains made to clean Irelands, dirty, shamefully, stains.

The travelling girls soul was never let go, she worked 27 years, she was left to die and faced every humans worse fears. She now lays in a mass grave, it was to late for her to be saved because of the way the so called holy church behaved, now her daughter is left carrying hers and her mothers pain, a suffering that will never go away, until the day they meet again in a better place. 

May she RIP. 

Dedicated to Angela Collins. 

Angela Collins in the magdalene laundries

In memory of Angela Collins. 

22nd September 2015 protest!

On the 22nd of September we will be holding another demonstration! 

The magdalene women that lay in the mass graves children deserve justice, the children of the women deserve their mothers inheritance for the time they worked in the laundries if their mothers was taken unlawfully! 

My nan Angela had her three children taken from her on behalf of racism and prejudices. She was an Irish traveller and unmarried mother although records state she was a good mother they took her away from her three children. 

They are still trying to ignore the dead women as if they didn't exist because they dumped them in a hole! They are still trying to ignore the children who had their mothers taken from them wrongly to be locked away and put in a grave. 

Children mothers have been taken and some murdered and yet they are trying to ignore the women who worked and died because of their neglect and abuse! 

The children deserve an apology and their mothers inheritance which their mothers work in years of slavery for! 

We can not be fooled by all the commission the government puts out there to excluded and occupy our brains with. We must seek for full justice and that is opening a full investigation into Ireland's care system regarding both mothers and children! We must stand and support each other for a full and needed outcome! 

I for one will not be fooled as is why on the 22nd of September, I will be shouting louder then I shouted last time, I will be making my voice heard for those that cannot speak for themselves! Even if we stand alone as a family, we will have to do so! 

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Unfinished business!

For decades many individuals have been fighting on behalf of their justice and their mothers justice. 

The Irish government has continued to exclude many people by opening different commissions into the abuse that took place within Ireland because of the governments and catholic church's crimes but instead of looking at the mother, children and baby homes as a whole, by simply just looking into all those in the care system that consisted of mothers and children and that was run by the Catholic Church and funded by the state they instead have continued to exclude and leave survivors out of apologies. 

On the 15th of July 2015, survivors of the magdalene laundries, mother and baby homes and the children of the mothers who was taken from them and the families of the survivors stood strong together to show the government we are together and we are one and although we were separated from our mums and loved ones all because of their mistakes and prejudices the survivors will not give up on behalf of their justice!

Children of the women who entered the magdalene laundries and the women who was forced into the mass graves should receive an apology to their next of kins and their mothers inheritance that has been stolen from them, that they worked for, should be given to their children! 

The government also needs to let families rebury their loved ones if they are laying in a mass graves and children who were part of any home and who had their mothers stolen of them deserve an apology on behalf of having their mother taken! Wether that be them being illegally adopted! Being born and having to stay 4 years of their life's in mother and baby homes which some children have had to suffer that long in them hell holes or the children of the magdalene women or children that was forced to visit the magdalene laundries to see their mothers for some 11 years! They all deserve justice for what they were put through! 

On the day one mother shared her experience regarding forced adoption and her heartbreaking experience regarding the search for her son. She spoke with such strength and acknowledged all those that were involved! She also said, "When you see a cross, a black dress, a collar, look to the ground and look to the women in the mass graves" which was a powerful and truthful statement, it brought shivers to your spine when she carried on to say "children and their grandchildren and great grandchildren have no where to pay respects to the women who lays in mass graves without being reminded on the abuse and suffering!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oHhkYIZqE4

The nuns and priests who are criminals have been able to escape the country with their freedom intact, although many of them abused and sexually abused many children and women, some had even went on to work in UK hospitals, they hide their past with the help of the government and still have their freedom, while freedom for people like Mary Collins mum, named Angela Collins, who lays in a mass grave with 72 other women has had her life shortened by the neglect of the church and is not even allowed the simple freedom of being buried by her loved ones in a single grave which Angela's daughter and family has requested but they are refused because the church owns the land, although it is possible. They sadly ignore their requests for permission. 

When will the government stop wasting money and look into the care system as a whole. They need to look at everyone's case individually but look at it has a whole. So no one that suffered because of the faults of the government and Catholic Church is excluded and is left fighting on behalf of theirs or their mothers or sisters, or aunts, brothers, fathers, uncles justice and are not left for decades fighting for what they deserve because they wasn't under a place with a certain name, although it is like the others they are having a commission into or leaving children fight on behalf of their mothers justice because they are dead! The government needs to open one big commission into the care system! 

Clearly within the care system which consisted of women and children their was a lot of wrongs that needs to be made right. Unless Ireland acknowledges and apologies for the past, there will never be a good future and them prolonging suffering for families and excluding people that has suffered is not helping but causing more suffering and more anger! 

A survivor had quoted, it's the rolling ball effect, not just the person suffers but their children does and their children's children have because they have had to grow up watching their parents suffering and they are still fighting for justice meaning the suffering continues for many. Some children have had to grow up with a parent that suffers with depression or alcohol or drug abuse to numb the pain to forget what the church and government put them through, they have had to grow up with a lack of family and having to keep their parents secrets and not explain their history. 

When will they give survivors the justice they deserve and help ease the suffering for those survivors and their children and their family's by letting them try to forget about the past and not always be fighting on behalf of it and that starts with an apology and when they look into things as a whole and apologise to all the children and women who was part of the care system that the government and church created to degrade, abuse and use financially as their slaves! 

Everyone on the day of the protest was saddened. It is 2015 and still many people are left to suffer because of the governments and church's wrongs! 

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