When Mary Monaghan, now 64, was sent to live in America aged two, the Irish Catholic nuns who put her on the boat thought they were sending her to a better life. Tragically, nothing could have been further from the truth for not only was her adoptive father William O'Brien violent, he was a predatory paedophile as well. Now Ms Monaghan has questioned why nothing was done to help her - and why checks that would have revealed O'Brien's desire for children, were not done. Tragedy: Mary Monaghan was handed to a paedophile by nuns who ran the baby home where she was born
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Mary Monaghan, 64, was two when she was adopted by a U.S couple
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She was born to an unmarried mother in an Irish baby home run by nuns
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Nuns failed to vet parents and her father proved to be a paedophile
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Suffered years of sexual abuse and has post-traumatic stress disorder
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Eventually reunited with mother Theresa, who has since died, aged 52
Grim: More than 2000 children were sent to families in @placeholder by nuns during the 1950s and 60s