It's time once more for the Judge Rotenberg Center to be in the news. This time the center seems to be the victim of a prank by a former resident. The Center, which treats about 250 children and adults who are autistic, retarded or emotionally disturbed, operates from a central facility that monitors surveillance cameras in satellite facilities.
One of their satellite homes received a phone call in the middle of the night instructing the staff there to administer shock treatments to two of the residents who, the caller said, had misbehaved earlier. The staff was inexperienced, overworked and new to the Center. This was not the first time they had received a call from the central office. However, apparently there was no mechanism in place to verify that the call actually came from the central office. So, two teen-aged residents were given the center's standard shock treatments. One was shocked 77 times, the other 29 times. One had to be taken to the hospital for first degree burns.
The Center has survived two attempts by the state to shut it down. It's likely they will survive another one.
2 comments:
My God! That's diabolical. Electric shocks as punishment? Such treatment isn't even legal on animals in the UK. Why is this within the law?
The recent prank incident is being covered by sources like USA Today, Fox News, and the Associated Press, which means that now is the time to contact the governor:
Deval Patrick at 617-725-4005 out of state or 888-870-7770 in state.
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