Posted on 07/03/2018 10:50:34 AM PDT by Morgana
A Massachusetts school for special needs children can continue to use a form of electric shock therapy on students after a long-running battle with state officials over the controversial treatment was decided in their favor.
The Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton is the only learning center in the country to use the graduated electronic decelerator to control the behavior of students with development delays.
The commonwealth had been trying since 2013 to ban the practice, but last week, Judge Katherine Fields, the first justice of the Bristol County Probate and Family Court, sided with the school.
The school did not respond to a request for comment, but instead directed ABC News to contact the JRC Parents Group, which said in a statement, “No one loves our children more than we do; we have tried and continue to try everything available to them, including positive behavior therapies and medications to help our children, but as the Court found - there is no evidence that any alternative treatment would be effective to treat our children and keep them safe.”
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“On the other hand I can think of a lot of people that need to have a shock collar on.”
Princess Nancy, Maxine Waters, any of the obamas,
Don’t taze me, bro!
Government shouldn’t try to control behavior by electrocuting recalcitrants.
inhumane.......electric shock therapy is apparently back......
Hey let’s bring back lobotomys.
Hmm, I could maybe see this being justified if they were democrat voters, but special needs kids?!?
From what I have read—sometimes it works. Drastic yes, but if it will help some people worth it.
“Hmm, I could maybe see this being justified if they were democrat voters, but special needs kids?!?”
Well I guess seeing that maybe just maybe the Antifa rioters qualify as “special needs”, if you get my drift.
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