Disabled Kids Electrocuted Because of Prank Call

[z3wb]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=4022502&page=1

So basically, there's this school in Massachusettes called the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center where bad parents send their mentally-disabled kids that are too fucked up to go to a normal school. The students have to wear a bunch of electrodes connected to a battery pack 24 hours a day and if they misbehave, they get electrocuted. Some kid, who may have been a student there, prank called the school and, pretending to be a staff member, told them to shock two students for misbehaving. And they did. 77 times.

[Nod]

Can I get a judges ruling on whether electrocuting chilidren as punishment is abuse?

[z3wb]

It was either this or tying them to a fence post and working them over with a rubber hose. That'll teach them to be disabled!

[Tachyon]

In Canada they could maybe get away with it through "loco parentis". It sounds like it makes sense in Spanish better.

[rbcp]

Corporal punishment by paddling is somewhat common in regular public schools.  21 states still allow it.  Here's some stats for paddling:

http://www.stophitting.com/disatschool/statesBanning.php

I couldn't find any stats on electric shock punishment, but I didn't search very hard.  In my high school, one of our teachers said that corporal punishment by electric shock was allowed in our school and he had done it recently.  (This was back in 1988 or so.)  He named the maximum voltage he was allowed to administer to students.  It was his beginning of the year "don't fuck with me" speech. 

[Nod]

I'm all for paddling but electroshock leans a little too far towards torture for my tastes. I can't see any kid doing something that would warrent that sort of punishment and if they did that would be something for the police to handle and not the school. That's just my opinion though.

[rbcp]

I'm all for paddling but electroshock leans a little too far towards torture for my tastes. I can't see any kid doing something that would warrent that sort of punishment and if they did that would be something for the police to handle and not the school. That's just my opinion though.

Yeah, paddling is plenty of deterrent for just about any kid.  I think it sucks that they're not using it anymore.  Kids are assholes and they need to be hit as much as possible.

[johnnyhacker]

you know it's sad that they still use the same methods to tame people, as they do to train animals... what's even sadder is that i think i know the prank caller! and he's mentally deranged, and disabled to boot, and lives in the boston area, My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.....

[Nod]

Kids are assholes and they need to be hit as much as possible.

I should lurk moar 'cause I really can't tell if you're joking or not. If not I agree with you entirely. Kids are assholes and they should definately be spanked. That's why I'm the "normal, well adjusted" person that I am today. Being spanked is why I never stole any cars or broke people's windows or anything like that. I knew if I did I would get the belt across my ass. I don't advocate child abuse and would never say it's alright to punch a kid or hit them in the face but there's no reason they shouldn't get spanked for breaking the rules. Otherwise they'll never understand that there are consequences for their actions.


EDIT: Fixed my contraction. Not the kind you where you're having a baby. The kind where you smush two words together to make one and use an apostraphe.

[johnnyhacker]

whatever happened to those insanely wide paddles they had in catholic schools, i think those are great to bring back in today's society.

[MattGSX]

I should lurk moar 'cause I really can't tell if you're joking or not. If not I agree with you entirely. Kids are assholes and they should definately be spanked. That's why I'm the "normal, well adjusted" person that I am today. Being spanked is why I never stole any cars or broke people's windows or anything like that. I knew if I did I would get the belt across my ass. I don't advocate child abuse and would never say it's alright to punch a kid or hit them in the face but there's no reason they should get spanked for breaking the rules. Otherwise they'll never understand that there are consequences for their actions.

Agreed. There is nothing like the threat of stern, painful repercussions to keep a kid in line.

[Zazen]

I don't advocate child abuse and would never say it's alright to punch a kid or hit them in the face but there's no reason they shouldn't get spanked for breaking the rules.

Amen. Other kids laugh at being "grounded", whereas my teenage daughter knows damn well to be home by 8 or she'll get a bare-ass spanking in front of my webcam.

[XOXKittenXOX]

.... May I watch? ^^ 

[frog]

.... May I watch? ^^ 

IT'S A WHORE! WATCH OUT!

[z3wb]

Yeah the Judge Rotenberg Center has killed a total of 6 people, one of them was a retarded girl who refused to eat; they tried force-feeding her/electrocuting her etc. and eventually she died. It turned out she had stomach ulcers. Oops...

Another one was a 22 year old guy with severe autism. They pushed his head between his legs, handcuffed his hands behind his back, and forced him to wear a helmet that blares static noise at very high volume. Turns out the helmet had a major design flaw; he couldn't breathe while wearing it and died of asphyxiation. Double oops...

The guy who runs the place did all sorts of experiments to find the most effective method of making retards behave, from pinching them to slapping them with a spatula, but he found that electrocution was the best method. Apparently he likes to take the Josef Mengele approach towards behavior modification.

You can read all about the Rotenberg Center here: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html