A WOMAN spent 33 years at an Oxfordshire mental hospital after being sent there because her mother wanted to keep boys away from her.
Maureen Green was just 16 when she was admitted as a day patient to the Borocourt Hospital and left just five years ago, but says she feels no bitterness for what happened to her. The hospital, near Wallingford, is now closed and renamed Wyfold Court, and is being converted into flats.
Maureen, 54, of Stoke Row, near Wallingford, says at the time her mother, who died last November, was worried about her striking up a friendship with a man and was only doing what she thought was best.
"I had got a job in a pub after leaving school at 15 and I had got mixed up with fellas so I was put in Borocourt," she told the Oxford Mail.
While at the hospital, Maureen, who is still a virgin, was put to work there and even tested condoms.
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