Robyn Cohen was an 18-year-old unmarried expectant mother when she entered the state's Gore Street Hospital in 1969.

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It was there, a place that should serve to care for each patient that comes through the door, that she had what would become lifelong trauma inflicted upon her, which left her "an empty shell".

Tasmanian woman Robyn Cohen was 18 years old when she was forced to put her baby daughter out for adoption by hospital staff. Picture by Matt Maloney.

Ms Cohen said it was about 15 years ago that she found her voice.

She said she had sto

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