Reply #38: I'd like a rebuttal to: "Electric Shocks Can Continue at Mass. School After Hoax"

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I'd also like to note that the place erased the surveillance tapes that showed this - after being ordered not to

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4022502&page=1


Electric Shocks Can Continue at Mass. School After Hoax
A Prank Caller Duped School Officials Into Shocking Students as Many as 77 Times

By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Dec. 24, 2007

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, the Associated Press reports...

...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....


....A prankster, believed to be a former student of the Canton, Mass., school, reportedly posed as a member of the administration and phoned in instructions for shock therapy, according to a report by the Department of Early Education and Care, the organization that licenses the residential program at the school and is conducting the investigation.

Unaware that the phone call was a prank, school officials reportedly woke the two students up and delivered 77 shocks to one student and 29 to another -- informing both that it was punishment for misbehavior earlier in the day....