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Take Action: Electro-shocking Special Need Students?!
Electroshock is a form of torture a special needs school is using. It should be outlawed immediately!
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Progress: 11,847
Sponsored by: The Autism Site
Here's something that might surprise you: electroshock therapy is being used as a form of behavior control for special needs children.
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) — a special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts — systemically utilizes electroshock therapy to restrain students who they deem are acting out. These painful treatments are nothing less than torture. Newly released video footage shows a teen strapped face-down to a gurney and being shocked over 30 times. The video shows him screaming in pain.
Following the "therapy" session, the teen was diagnosed with acute stress and suffered long-term physical distress.
How is this legal? These forms of torture are grave human rights offenses that cannot be allowed to continue, and it's so serious that we need the president to step in.
Ask President Obama to take swift action against JRC and to immediately outlaw the practice of electroshock therapy.
Dear President Obama,
I need to call your attention to a brutal practice that's taking place at a special needs school in Massachusetts called the Judge Rotenberg Center.
JRC utilizes electroshock therapy as a means of controlling the behavior of its special needs students. Recently a video was made public that featured a teenager being tortured by JRC teachers for hours. Following the session, the student developed acute stress and long-term physical implications.
How this type of torture could still be acceptable is beyond me. Special needs students should be nurtured and encouraged — not brutally tormented in ways that only hurt them more.
I need you to step in and bring justice to these poor families who are dealing with the aftermath of electroshock therapy. I need you to call JRC onto the chopping block and make all who were involved answer for their actions. And I need you to create legislation that would prevent further suffering on the part of special needs children.
Please do what you can to make sure our special needs students are receiving proper care and education.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Megan Campesi
This practice is disgusting. This is not therapy. This is torture for our special needs students. There are plenty of other methods to discipline children which are more humane and effective. Special needs students should be receiving better care.
May 13, 2013
kaitlyn smith
May 13, 2013
stacey edwards
the true "victims of low expectations"
May 13, 2013
Anne Strober
May 13, 2013
sandi crist
are we still living in the dark ages?
May 13, 2013
Chita Miller
May 13, 2013
Joanne George
May 13, 2013
kimberly Mason
May 12, 2013
Mary Bereiter
May 12, 2013
Daryl Bradford
May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Richard Bosboom
May 12, 2013
veronica mcdonnell
May 12, 2013
Gilda Gustafson
How have they been able to perform this form of torture and not be reprimanded for it? This is hard to believe that this has been allowed in this day and age.
May 12, 2013
Byron McHenry
I am a single father raising my 15 year old autistic son by myself. If anyone ever did this to my son I would be outraged. I am outraged that this is happening now at JRC and in my home state. I demand this ends now!
May 12, 2013
sarah austin
why is this happening?
May 11, 2013
rebecca churchill
May 11, 2013
Yiota Thomas
May 11, 2013
Mel Drabic
May 11, 2013
Kunsu Drabic
May 11, 2013
linda spencer
has this treatment been proven to cure these people ?I would think medication would be better and painless.
May 11, 2013
Margaret King
What an appalling way to treat people whose only "crime" is to be autistic! I personally wouldn't treat even the worst criminal this way; it's torture which has no place ANYWHERE in the 21st century!
May 11, 2013
Roxann Carmean
May 11, 2013
Justice Ross
May 11, 2013
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That is horrible, I would never send my autistic child there, something needs to be done immediately
May 11, 2013
Margaret Smith
That shit needs to stop
May 11, 2013
Lori Fogarty
I am amazed and appalled that this is considered to be a form of "therapy"! I have taught special needs children for more than 20 years and have a special needs child myself...this is inexcusable.
May 11, 2013
Rebecca Hawkinson
May 11, 2013
Vicky Evans
May 10, 2013
Marissa Niebla
May 10, 2013
Cat Suess
I am appalled that these beautiful children are being tortured this way & those responible must be punished. If this is their only solution then they prove their own stupidity. End this barbaric practice now & give these children the real care they need.
May 10, 2013
Jennifer Fogg
May 10, 2013
jessica stroup
This is HORRIFIC!!! I can not believe that our nation would allow this...this has to stop NOW!!!
May 10, 2013
Ellen De Domenico
May 10, 2013
Ann Schubert
May 10, 2013
Roxanne Scheidt
May 10, 2013
Vicki Butterfield
May 10, 2013
diane white
Please outlaw this horrific practice performed on our most vunerable
May 10, 2013
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Barbaric!! This is NOT the way to handle these special children. Outrageous to think we could have this mind set. This is not TREATMENT!
May 10, 2013
Ann Nolin
May 10, 2013
Tim Tebow
That is to cruel
Have a son with autism and a nephew and a little girl who is one of my biggist fans
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Lynne Gordon-Watson
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Outrageous!
May 9, 2013
Cristy Snowden
May 9, 2013
Suchith Rao
Pleas stop the torture in the name of " TREATMENT".
Let us follow other child friendly methods for Treatment...
May 9, 2013
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May 9, 2013
rosa younger
barbaric, not my grandson. this is definitely child abuse
