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Electric Shock Treatment for Special Children Acceptable, Says US State Authority
December 25, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Mental Health News
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center had come under severe criticism after it was discovered that two emotionally disturbed inmates were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call. Seven persons were sacked over the incident.
On Aug. 26, a caller posed as a supervisor and ordered the punishments for the two teenagers, 16 and 19, because he said they had misbehaved.
The teens 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 was treated for two first-degree burns.
A report released last week by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care found that the staff made multiple mistakes when they followed the prank caller's directions.
The report said six staffers at the centre had reason to doubt the orders to administer the shocks, but did nothing to stop it.
The six and a video surveillance worker on duty that night were fired on Oct. 1.
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. The report said the caller was a former resident of the center with knowledge of its operations. Police are looking into filing criminal charges, news agency AP
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