SHOCK - Prank Call Leads to Kids Getting Electro Shock

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First off I would have thought that the administering of a shock would be in an immediate response to a serious infraction and not something to be arbitrarily doled out on a whim over the phone like ordering a goddamned pizza. What kind of brain dead moron would accept such an order? That in itself shows that the Rotenberg Center should obviously not be allowed to carry out such “treatments”.

“I was just following orders”. Wasn’t that the common defense used by Nazi war criminals at the Nuremburg Trials following WWII?

I guess this is going to be the way of controlling all people in the future. Someday when this type of treatment becomes more accepted (when we have seen so much of it that we become desensitized to it) everyone will be wired and monitored. It IS coming to that one step at a time and we are already several steps in the direction of that objective.

School Gets Extension on Shock Treatment

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BOSTON (AP) — A special education school where two emotionally disturbed students were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call will be allowed to use electric shock treatments on students for another year.

But the state's Office of Health and Human Services said the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center must prove it uses shock treatments only for the most dangerous and self-destructive behaviors, and also show that the treatments reduce those behaviors.

On Aug. 26, someone posing as a supervisor called in shock treatments on two students, aged 16 and 19. The teens were awakened in the middle of the night and given the shock treatments, at times while their legs and arms were bound. One teen received 77 shocks and the other received 29. One was treated for two first-degree burns.

A state report found that staff made multiple mistakes when they followed the prank caller's directions.

The report by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care said six staffers at a Stoughton residence run by the Canton-based school had reason to doubt the orders to administer the shocks, but did nothing to stop it.

The six staff members and video surveillance worker on duty that night were fired on Oct. 1.

The caller said he was ordering the punishments because the teens had misbehaved earlier in the evening. But none of the staffers had witnessed any problems. The report said the caller was a former resident of the center with knowledge of its operations. Police are looking into filing criminal charges.

The incident in Stoughton renewed calls by school critics for the state to ban the shock treatments. But state officials said the parents of some residents defend the school and its methods.

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I thought this school had video cameras so they could monitor these kids all the time. If so, they should have been able to see the kids weren't doing anything wrong. Their website says shocks are used for dangerous and aggressive behaviors. I don't think that would be to hard to see. Maybe they went along with it because they didn't like the kids then used the "I was just following orders" as an excuse to avoid getting fired.

We don't allow this kind of treatment with dogs. Why the heck is it suddenly okay when applied to disabled kids? The human race is so d*mn sick it's a shame.

Oh, and I would trust a rabid dog's ability to feel empathy more than I'll ever trust a human's.

I would trust a tiger's ability to feel empathy better than I would a human's.

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I think so too, unless these staff members can be considered automatic machines without minds of their own, push the button, they move.

What? How can they do that to people?

They don't do what you want so you just torture them? Sick bastards.

I don't see how it could treat anything, just make people extremely scared to be themself.

I am terrified by this place, angry at it and disgusted by it. I almost threw up all over the magazine when I read it in the library.

Ed-- OMG. Have you met any of them? Seen them? Seen their expressions? Talked to them? Heard any comments or conversations? Heard anything, seen anything? Seen any pain in their eyes? Please tell us! Have you tried to do anything down there? Do you know anyone who works or goes to school there?