Trying to put a price on survivors’ suffering

The child abuse redress guidelines could frame the work of any scheme drawn up for the Magdalene Laundries women, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

IT IS 12 years since an organisation was charged with trying to put a price on the suffering vulnerable people endured because they were placed in institutional care.

That unprecedented project guided the child abuse redress board and tried to translate the accounts relived by those sent to residential schools into a monetary scale to reflect the pain they endured.