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The "Industrial schools" of Ireland run by the Catholic church in which 150,000 children passed through since the early 20th century were essentially child slavery rings where malnutrition, physical, and sexual abuse was the norm, and not the exception. Most children placed in these 'schools' were taken from parents considered unfit. There are many similarities between this and the Therepuetic boarding schools and juvenile institutions we see today in the US.
