Shock School Critic Says FDA Should Crack Down on Aversive Therapy
My Fox Boston – June 6, 2014 By Mike Beaudet, reporter Kevin Rothstein, producer BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) — A doctor who was part of an FDA…
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Shocking Kids into Compliance
ACLU – April 25, 2014 By Susan Mizner The Judge Rotenberg Center, a residential school in northern Massachusetts, prides itself on teaching students with disabilities…
Flashback: Electroshock therapy still used in USA – Boy tortured with 31 shocks over seven hours, strapped to table
Natural News – November 02, 2013 By Mike Adams, Video Transcript Health Ranger: Alright, welcome to the Health Ranger Report, this is Mike Adams with…
New York to pull students from the Judge Rotenberg Center?
In light of recent developments, Councilman Vincent J. Gentile, a long-time advocate for New York’s most vulnerable, is calling on New York City Department of Education Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott to remove all New York children from the infamous Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts once and for all.
U.N. investigating Judge Rotenberg Center’s Use of Electroshock of Kids as Torture
Powerful video of a Judge Rotenberg Center student shocked and restrained for hours continues to reverberate on Beacon Hill and beyond, with opponents of the treatment stepping up efforts to ban the shocks as the United Nations expert on torture says he’s investigating the school. The video has helped fuel a renewed lobbying effort to ban the long-controversial shocks. Several opponents of the shocks, including the mother of the student in that video, visited lawmakers’ offices today to press for the ban.
“We’re going to continue to let our children be tortured? I just hope that they come to their senses are realize this is wrong and it’s been wrong for the last 27 years,” said Cheryl McCollins, mother of former Rotenberg Center student Andre McCollins.