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Netherlands: A group of women accuse nuns of locking them up and forcing them to do forced labor

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A group of 19 Dutch women this Friday accused the order of Catholic nuns of forced labor and that in their youth they were “locked up” in monasteries in difficult situations.

The case affects about 15,000 adolescents who were in care “Sisters of the Good Shepherdin the Netherlands between 1951 and 1979 and is pending before the court in Haarlem, which will deliver its verdict in April.

womenwho are currently between 62 and 91 years old, claim to have been protected by this order as teenagers in difficult situations.

Young women were seen forced to work six days a week, often for long hours, sewing things for profit, washing or ironing.

“The Good Shepherd is responsible for the violation of one of human rights the most fundamental of what we know: the prohibition of forced or compulsory labor,” condemned his lawyer Lisbeth Zegveld.

“At first sight, good shepherd she did a service to society, government and girls by offering a home to what she called “fallen women,” she told the judges.

“In fact, he locked up hundreds women and forced them to work,” the lawyer said.

Six women testified on Friday. One of them told the court that she had become “a robot that follows all the orders of the nuns and works day after day without rest.”

As lawyers have written in some court documentsher clients are among “thousands of young women in various countries who have been abused by the order, subjected to forced labor on an industrial scale.”

recipient of something good shepherd denies the allegations and claims that the method religious it was “taken out of the context of the times”. Lawyers, in turn, make sure that the statements of claim are registered.

AFP


Source: RPP

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