My GOD thanks awfull.  Do you think a pickett of the centre would help?  My GOD I feel so angry about that place!Â
me too
 And I feel so angry that the families just stand back and let it happen! Â
WORSE! the families actively seek it out. They have to work to get their kids in there. If I reacll, there is a waiting list!
Isn't this against International Law?  Shouldn't the UN get involved here?
The USA often times feels it is above such. Attitude is that our sovereignty trumps international law when convenient. And frankly, I have a big issue with international law interfering with national sovereignty in most cases anyway.
Bet that they'd find a way to rationalize that torture conventions don't apply to medical treatments or some such.
I just found out about this place in the last few days. I know it still exists. I know it shouldn't still exist.
(See how well I did holding back my rant about this place? I'm so proud of myself. I didn't even call them sadistic f....)
I can't believe this is actually real and happening in today's times. It's just....I can't even put into words how awful this is and just reading that made me feel sick.
I did something about it. I posted a video about it on youtube and sent my writeup (mainly using the highlighted facts here and my own opinion) to highly stress the importance of this. I also sent the write ups to my friends.
Here is the link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IhWokh9XnfU
Just found this article, albeit a month old, via my favorite weird news site...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/...shock.html
Also if any of the
adults here want the address to the weird news site, PM me. You can comment
there for a week before the thread gets archived. (No, Mother Jones is not the weird news site. I just found the link there and now copy that same link here.)
JRC has made the news again. This time, one of its residences accidentally took orders from a prank caller to wake two students up in the middle of the night and shock them. One had to be treated for first-degree burns. Here it is: http://wbztv.com/local/shock.treatments.prank.2.614971.html
I certainly hope this is what finally shuts that place down.
New report details prank at Rotenberg Center
By TOM BENNER
Patriot Ledger State House Bureau
BOSTON -- A prankster makes a late-night phone call to a Stoughton group home for special needs students.
Posing as a school official, the caller tells employees to awaken two residents, ages 16 and 19, and administer painful electric skin shocks as punishment for their behavior earlier in the evening.
The calls, by a former resident of the group home between 2 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. on Aug. 26, result in the students receiving multiple two-second skin shocks n 77 to one of the students, and 29 to another. Both are initially awoken as skin shocks are first administered. At another point, both are pinned down in a four-point restraint, restricting movement of their limbs.
Click here to see the report
http ://arcmass. org/Portals/0/DEEC%20JRC%20report%2011-1-07.pdf
The incident is detailed in a report released Wednesday by the state Department of Early Education and Care, and has top Beacon Hill officials renewing calls for an end to the use of skin shocks and other forms of punishment at the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Education Center.
``To have someone take a phone call and then go shock people is just outrageous, it’s criminal,'' said Senate President Therese Murray, a Plymouth Democrat who backs a bill curbing the use of so-called aversive therapy. The bill comes up for a legislative hearing on Jan. 16.
Murray also faulted the Patrick administration for the long time lag in disclosing the incident.
``We have investigators within our agencies that should have been on this,'' Murray said. ``We certainly should have been told about it.''
According to the report, as the two students protested that they were innocent and howled in pain, other student residents awoke in the night and shouted in protest, the report said. They told staff members the calls were a prank, but were told to go back to bed.
The two students complained they were in pain and asked to see a nurse, to no immediate avail. One, who screamed that his leg was ``killing him,'' was found during a hospital examination the next day to have first-degree burn from the skin shocks. The other told staff members his blood pressure was racing and he felt as though he was about to have a stroke.
The report concludes that one employee ``was physically abusive toward residents,'' while six others were negligent in their duties.
The state’s Disabled Persons Protection Committee is investigating a complaint that a third victim n an adult nalso received unnecessary shock treatments after the prank calls.
State Department of Mental Retardation Commission Elin Howe did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Murray and other lawmakers have sought to be ban skin shocks in the past, but Rotenberg officials have successfully argued that the treatment is needed in extreme cases. School founder Dr. Matthew Israel did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
``People have been trying to stop this place for 20 years,'' said Sen. Brian Joyce, a Milton Democrat who district includes the school’s main campus in Canton. ``Massachusetts, as far as I know, is the only place in the country that allows this barbaric practice.''
The incident is under investigation by Stoughton police, the state Department of Social Services, and the Disabled Persons Protection Commission.
State officials credited school officials with immediately reporting the prank once it was discovered.
``The Judge Rotenberg Center did exactly what it was supposed to do,'' said Cindy Campbell, spokeswoman for the Department of Early Education and Care. ``They self-reported to the authorities promptly after the incident.''
Nearly 75 percent of the center’s 230 residents are subject to jolts of electricity to the skin or food deprivation if they act inappropriately.
The school treats people with a wide variety of behavior problems, including autistic-like students who have aggressive, self-injurious or destructive behaviors and high-functioning students with psychiatric or emotional problems, according to a description posted on its Web site.
``''Eight states (including Massachusetts) send children to the center, which is often seen as the last resort for children with severe emotional or behavior problems.
The center receives $220,000 per child in tuition from states and school districts, and collects $56 million in yearly revenues; Israel collects an annual salary of $400,000.
In addition to its Canton campus, the Rotenberg Center has group homes in Attleboro, Mansfield, Rehoboth, Norton, Randolph, Stoughton and Holbrook.
Tom Benner may be reached at tbenner@ledger.com
Click here to see the report
Copyright 2007 The Patriot Ledger
Transmitted Wednesday, December 19, 2007
My best guess about why someone would send their kid there, is because while that kid is in that hellhole, the parents get to have someone else do their job for them. If they're that selfish, they're not going to give a crap if their kid is being tortured.
My best guess about why someone would send their kid there, is because while that kid is in that hellhole, the parents get to have someone else do their job for them. If they're that selfish, they're not going to give a crap if their kid is being tortured.
Have you seen the pictures of that place on their website? The place looks like a chucky-cheese/disney store. Just from how the place looks and what they have for facilities, I might even be tempted to go there myself had it not been for the "shocking" news about them.
My best guess about why someone would send their kid there, is because while that kid is in that hellhole, the parents get to have someone else do their job for them.  If they're that selfish, they're not going to give a crap if their kid is being tortured.
Have you seen the pictures of that place on their website?  The place looks like a chucky-cheese/disney store.  Just from how the place looks and what they have for facilities, I might even be tempted to go there myself had it not been for the "shocking" news about them.
I did look at its website once and only once. I'd like to know what their interior designer smoked before getting to work on the place. If there's any visual stimulus in this world that could make somebody vomit, that's got to be it.
As for nobody carrying an extension cord around the neck on Pull The Plug Day, just another reason people from this site should start meeting IRL whenever possible. Kind of hard to rally from behind a keyboard, don't ya think?
I just meant, find out who here's in your local area, within a day's travel, and then arrange meet-ups. The first meet-up doesn't have to be for any other purpose than to meet. Get into the routine of that and then consider getting down to business.
Does anybody got any stats on how many people were killed while undergoing the electric shock treatment at the Judge Rotenberg Center? If the Senators and Representatives see how many people were killed while at JRC, they might take some action, along with the parents, especially if they have to bury their child.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629222/
IMDB says the original airdate of that episode was 1995. It would be horrible if the L&O creators (or NBC for that matter) knew places like the JRC existed but never did anything about them. Instead they decided to make them an episode plot basis to acheive thier selfish goal of increasing TV ratings.
If anyone watched Law & Order (the original and the two spinoffs), they based many stories on actual events. It could be possible that something like that actually happening, either at JRC or a simliar place. At the end, they found the director guilty and had to close down the place.
Does anybody got any stats on how many people were killed while undergoing the electric shock treatment at the Judge Rotenberg Center? If the Senators and Representatives see how many people were killed while at JRC, they might take some action, along with the parents, especially if they have to bury their child.
...wait, killed? They're not using dangerous electric shocks, are they? It's just supposed to be uncomfortable, there shouldn't be any risk at all of serious harm...
Also, please refrain from belittling historical tragedies by comparing them to traumatized little autistic kids. The Spanish Inquisition killed an awful lot of people. Thus far all JRC has done is zap the stimming behavior out of some autistic kids, which is bad but does not merit comparison.
Electric shocks do kill people, especially if the person administrating them may send too much. In fact, several US states had used electric shocks for execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
And, for another thing, I did not post anything about the Spanish Inquisition at all, so don't accuse me of comparing the JRC with the Spanish Inquisition. I simply asked to see if there are stats about anyone at JRC being killed by electric shocks.
Electric shocks do kill people, especially if the person administrating them may send too much. In fact, several US states had used electric shocks for execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
And, for another thing, I did not post anything about the Spanish Inquisition at all, so don't accuse me of comparing the JRC with the Spanish Inquisition. I simply asked to see if there are stats about anyone at JRC being killed by electric shocks.
...there is a teensy difference between an electric jolt designed to cause discomfort and the electric chair; the latter requires much, much more energy. The former should never lead to death except through gross negligence or unforgivable overuse (even with tasers, which are much, much stronger, there's only tenuous evidence that they're really dangerous.) It's the difference between spanking your kid and beating him to death.
I didn't intend any of that reprimand to be for you, though (it was micgrace who posted "it makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a charity") I was just expressing my shock and horror at the idea that the JRC caused deaths. If they have then they're much, much worse than I had thought...
I asked about the deaths because people may pay more attention to JRC if there are confirmed deaths from there, especially if they came from electric shocks being misadministrated. That is all I asked, just to see if there were any deaths from there.