Nuns forced care children to eat their own vomit, abuse inquiry told

At dinner time when I could not eat the food, the nuns used to push my head back, hold my nose then force the food down my throat. I would bring it all up again over the table so they then would put it on my plate and start the same thing over and over again. While they did the same to the girl beside me and when she vomited her food up, they would scrape her food up with mine then put it all onto my plate, and force her food down my throat as well.

I would vomit it up and still they would keep pushing my head back and holding my nose and spooning the horrid food into my mouth. They would grab my hair and pull my head back and keep pulling my hair. At tea time the food that I left would be still on my plate in my place for me to eat for tea. The same thing would happen again and again, they forced me to eat my own vomit. The nuns knew that while they were holding my nose and forcing the food down my throat, that I could not breathe, I would be coughing, choking and bringing up the food while they were still forcing more food down me. It still makes me shake and quiver still now, thinking of the horror of those mealtimes.
The reason we couldn't eat the food, or vomited it up, was because it had maggots in with the meat, the sago and semolina had weevils, the cabbage had butterfly eggs, and the bread and dripping had a half an inch of cold fat all around it. They dipped the bread in the hot fat the night before. That's what we had every morning. We would choke on it as it was going down, and it would make us vomit.
In My New Book... By Ann Thompson

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SOME children at residential homes run by Catholic nuns were made to eat their own vomit, a lawyer said.

Those who wet their beds were forced to put soiled sheets on their heads by members of a harsh regime which was devoid of love, a public inquiry into child abuse at residential homes was told.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nuns-forced-care-children-to-eat-their-own-vomit-abuse-inquiry-told-29954872.html