Video reveals teen’s electro-shock torture at Massachusetts school

[Playinghardball]

A video that a school in Massachusetts has fought in court for years to keep under wraps was played in public for the first time this week, revealing the torture of a disabled boy through the use of repeated electric shocks.

The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Caton, Massachusetts has for years been pushing back against allegations of flippant use of electric shocks and other abuses against its special-needs students, and it had managed to keep video central to a case brought by one former student’s mother under wraps.

Now, the public knows why.

Footage played in court this week and captured by a local Fox News affiliate shows former student Andre McCollins, then a disabled 18-year-old, strapped to a table and screaming savagely in pain as faculty applied 31 individual jolts of electricity over the course of seven hours. He was ultimately hospitalized.

JRC lawyers insist the shocks were applied as part of a treatment routine meant to pacify mentally and emotionally troubled students, and that McCollins was just one of many who have undergone the so-called therapy. They also claimed he was “aggressive,” and therefore needed the treatment.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/11/video-reveals-teens-electro-shock-torture-at-massachusetts-school/

[RebelOne]

1. That is horrific. n/t

[Smilo]

2. These people should undergo the same kind of therapy

I wonder if they would be laughing then.

Good for the judge allowing the camera in the courtroom so the truth could be shown. We need "open doors" for all centers such as the Judge Rotenberg Center - may be then they would treat patients with respect.