On a dark December day in 1997, 13-year-old Mary (not her real name) boarded a plane to England with a social worker and her foster mother.
Today, Mary is a 29-year-old mother of two, but 16 years ago she was the teenage "Traveller" (a Traveller is an Irish ethnic group) at the center of the controversial C Case who was taken to the UK for an abortion by health board staff after being brutally raped. Now she wants answers...and healing...Read her story here.
Friday, May 10, 2013
13 Year Old Rape Victim Forced to Abort Her Baby
On a dark December day in 1997, 13-year-old Mary (not her real name) boarded a plane to England with a social worker and her foster mother.
Today, Mary is a 29-year-old mother of two, but 16 years ago she was the teenage "Traveller" (a Traveller is an Irish ethnic group) at the center of the controversial C Case who was taken to the UK for an abortion by health board staff after being brutally raped. Now she wants answers...and healing...Read her story here.
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