Punishment of pregnant garda an example of sexual policing

Majella Moynihan was forced to give her child up for adoption after she had sex out of marriage in 1984. She was not the only ‘fallen’ woman shabbily treated by the State, says Linda Connolly

Key files relating to the discriminatory treatment of former garda Majella Moynihan, after she had a baby outside of wedlock in 1984, were reported this week to have gone missing from Garda Headquarters.