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Criminal

The Magdalene Laundries

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland. It was a laundry business run by a Catholic order of nuns. Elizabeth noticed bars on its windows. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:32.1

Elizabeth Coppin was 14 years old when she was put in a cab and taken to a place called

0:37.4

Peacock Lane in County Cork, Ireland.

0:41.4

It was March 1964.

0:43.0

Oh, Peacock Lane.

0:47.0

It was a very imposing building.

0:50.0

It was creepy and eerie.

0:52.0

Elizabeth had heard of Peacock Lane before,

0:55.0

from a nun who worked at her school.

0:58.0

I knew it was a horrible place

1:00.0

because when we were young,

1:01.0

she's to send a lot of the girls there she didn't like and she

1:05.6

used to say do you want to go where so-and-so you'll be going where she went but she

1:10.3

they never told us where this place was.

1:13.4

It could have been hell.

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