Posted on 12/23/2007 8:28:43 PM PST by dayglored
School To Continue Electric Shock
Officials Give School One Year Extension
BOSTON -- State officials are allowing a controversial special education school to use electric shock treatments on students for another year...
The decision comes after an August incident in which two emotionally disturbed students were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call from a person posing as a supervisor...
...six staffers at a Stoughton residence run by the Canton-based school had reason to doubt the orders to administer the shocks, but did nothing to stop it...
...the teens, ages 16 and 19, were awakened in the middle of the night and given the shock treatments, at times while their legs and arms were bound. One teen received 77 shocks and the other received 29. One boy was treated for two first-degree burns.
The caller said he was ordering the punishments because the teens had misbehaved earlier in the evening. But none of the staffers had witnessed any problems...
(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...
How does a student end up being granted the pleasure of receiving repetitive Electro-Shock Treatments?
Are these the students who WOULD NOT sign up for FISTING CLASSES?
The photo in post 2, is of me, as I read this article, my thoughts exactly.
Russia is using it now on political prisoners, remember the reporter, Ms Arap?
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