Gitmo For U.S. Children: Center for Retarded Kids Uses Electroshock Therapy

[Kat Kanning]

Gitmo For U.S. Children: Center for Retarded Kids Uses Electroshock Therapy
Monday, June 23, 2008 by: Mike Adams


(NaturalNews) It appears that the use of electroshock punishment tactics isn't limited to the U.S. military these days: The state of Massachusetts has renewed a special education school's authority to use electric shocks as a form of punishment, even after the school admitted to administering excessive and unfair shocks to two children after being told to do so by a prank caller.

Last year, a prank caller believed to be a former student called the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, MA, in the middle of the night. Posing as an administrator, the caller told school officials to administer electric shock treatments to two students, one 16 and one 19, for infractions that had allegedly happened more than five hours before. In response to the call, the two students were awakened; one was shocked 22 times, and the other was shocked 77 times.

"I think it's fair to say that [giving someone] 77 shocks is unusual," school spokesperson Ernest Corrigan later admitted. "It is excessive to what is normal protocol. Giving 22 shocks is also excessive." So why did they give the shocks to children? And why did they do so after merely receiving a prank phone call?

According to Nancy Alterio, the executive director of Massachusetts' Disabled Persons Protection Committee, which received a phone tip about the incident, a third person was also shocked based on the same prank call.

In response to the incident, the school fired seven people, claiming, "This [incident] happened, we reported it and we've taken steps necessary so that this doesn't happen again," Corrigan said.

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[Puke]

Gov't continues it's journey.

Just insane. 

[Russell Kanning]

why did they stop at 77? how did they know it was enough?

[J’raxis 270145]

Ugh, Massachusetts. Escaped from that hole one year and two days ago.