Posted on 09/28/2007 9:44:34 AM PDT by UKrepublican
See my comment above. What was done to this woman is beyond vile-truly evil. But I suspect(certainly *hope*) that this was a unique atrocity , and that few such events occurred in the UK. But who knows how many women in those states in the US that used gender-specific undetermined sentences were held for years or even decades, for offenses that saw their male accomplices released in a few short years or maybe even months?
“If you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.”
You did read this line? Right?
“The money was eventually found - but by then she was lost to the system in a maze of different institutions.”
She didn’t steal anything!!
The doctor misplaced it and still left the girl committed to a life of institutionalism.
I’m not buying. War’s been over 62 years. If they’d been at all motivated, they’d have looked for her, or her grave, and they’d have found her quick enough.
I was being extremely sarcastic.
Many Victorian attitudes still remain and they have nothing to do with morality or logic.
“I was being extremely sarcastic.”
ummmm...Ok.
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Dang! I thought this was about Ted Kennedy’s sister.
In the Good Old Days she'd have merely been shipped to Australia.
In the beginning, yes. But nobody in the NHS ever bothered to review her case in the years since. The NHS was instituted in the 1950s, I think. So there were a lot of years when she was in custody of the NHS and trying to get some help, and nobody did anything effective to help her.
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