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Petition to Stop Severe Shock Treatments as "Punishment" for Special Needs Children in Mass.
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The human rights abuses taking place at the JRC are well documented. The United Nations is aware of the JRC and has called these shocks “torture”, and says that “The prohibition of torture is absolute.” Yet the school continues to use a powerfully painful electric shock device on students to control their behaviors. These devices are reportedly much stronger than police stun guns and were created by the founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center.

The Judge Rotenberg Center must immediately stop its practice of shocking special needs students.

Rather than shocking students for only severe behaviors, student behavior plans at JRC dictated that we shock certain students for even the most minor of behavioral issues like closing their eyes for 15 seconds while sitting at the desk, pulling apart a loose piece of thread, tearing an empty used paper cup, or for standing up and raising a hand to ask to go to the bathroom. In some classrooms, very often students who observe their peers being shocked react in fear by standing up out of their seat, yelling or crying, or throwing down their task -- and are then shocked for these reactions.

A non-verbal nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy was shocked as part of her behavioral plan for making a moaning sound and for attempts to hold a staff’s hand (her attempts to communicate and to be loved).

(50% rule observed)

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If anyone can get the word out and get this petition filled up, it's GLP!

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I'd like to add to this petition that the people who did the shock treatments be hooked up to their own machines for a good long taste of what they shelled out.
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this cannot be true. OMG. if it is I swear I will vomit.
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I'd like to add to this petition that the people who did the shock treatments be hooked up to their own machines for a good long taste of what they shelled out.
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ohyeah
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Only people from the USA can sign it.
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I'd like to add to this petition that the people who did the shock treatments be hooked up to their own machines for a good long taste of what they shelled out.
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hear hear
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Click the petition letter tab for:

Debunking JRC’s Top Seven Untruths:

1. Untruth: Shocks and other major aversives are only used rarely (i.e. "once per week") and only for severe behaviors.
Truth: Based on multiple former JRC staff reports, non-verbal students are often shocked 20 – 30 times per day with the same devices seen used on Andre McCollins on video shown recently on Fox News and CNN. Some students become so injured with burns and scabs all over their bodies that they have to have their devices removed for 4 – 5 weeks to allow their skin to heal up. JRC staff refer to these as “GED vacations”.

2. Untruth: JRC’S shock devices are approved by the FDA and therefore prove to be safe.
Truth: The shock devices used at the JRC have not been FDA approved. Only in late May has the JRC removed that claim from their website after falsely advertising it since 1994. They were exposed on TV by Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN). You can see the bloody scabs in the video on Change.Org.

3. Untruth: The 'behaviors' of students at the JRC are so severe that electric shocks save their lives.
Truth: Students are reportedly shocked for minor behaviors, such as standing out of their seat for any reason, tearing any objects including an empty used paper cup, nagging, and swearing, as well as refusing to take off one’s jacket as seen on TV. Children with these sorts of challenges are not unique to the JRC. There are many alternatives that could be and are used around the world, but most JRC staff have not had training or experience to know otherwise.

4. Untruth: JRC’s skin shock treatment is based on scientific studies published in credible peer-review journals.
Truth: A director of research at Yale University recently appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and stated that he and his partner could not find any peer reviewed studies in any credible sources that supported the use of JRC’s methods.

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do you have any info on this outside of Change.org?
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do you have any info on this outside of Change.org?
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This is the incident that drew national attention to it, and the guy who is setting up the petition used to be a teacher there:

Thread: SHOCKING VIDEO OF DISABLED CHILD STRAPPED DOWN AND ELECTROCUTED 31 TIMES BY TEACHERS

Link to the boy that was put into a coma there is in the second post.
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do you have any info on this outside of Change.org?
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This is the incident that drew national attention to it, and the guy who is setting up the petition used to be a teacher there:

Thread: SHOCKING VIDEO OF DISABLED CHILD STRAPPED DOWN AND ELECTROCUTED 31 TIMES BY TEACHERS

Link to the boy that was put into a coma there is in the second post.
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thanks. reading it now
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CNN's expose on it:

[link to autisticaplanet.wordpress.com (secure)]

[link to ac360.blogs.cnn.com]

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Done.
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this cannot be true. OMG. if it is I swear I will vomit.
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No worse then Circumcision,that////// is child abuse
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I don't know why this place is still operating, it needs to be closed down and criminal assault charges laid.
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Honestly, we as a society should be ashamed that they still have students to shock and that this for one second being put in a petition.

Has everyone lost their minds? Have we sunk so low that we are actually debating whether its OK to use shock treatment on special needs children?


Our only purpose on this earth is to protect the children and learn compassion. Why has that become so fucking hard for people?
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Dear God...........:....:.........................................​.... Amen...........
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I don't often let myself get upset and angry to the point that I want to strangle a motherfucker... but...


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Fucking pieces of shit.

Give me one of these god damn devices and I'll jam that fucker so far down a throat they'll be regretting they took the job.

"Normal" people have an obligation to those who are mentally handicapped.


And that obligation IS NOT to force them to become another droid for this stupid and broken system.

The real retards are the one's running the place. The staff and faculty. THEY need to be administered these shocks so they can be zapped back to reality.

Violence is not my thing, but I would have no problem dropping some sons of bitches who thought this is a probable solution for punishment.

I am seething with discontent and I am heartfelt for these kids who have to go to this place every day... and those who understand that they will be punished for just being who they are.

My fucking God we have failed as a fucking species.
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I don't often let myself get upset and angry to the point that I want to strangle a motherfucker... but...


dsfgsdfjghjdgfsdgfjsdgfjasdgfjs.dgfsdfhdfshdgfshjgfsh.


Fucking pieces of shit.

Give me one of these god damn devices and I'll jam that fucker so far down a throat they'll be regretting they took the job.

"Normal" people have an obligation to those who are mentally handicapped.


And that obligation IS NOT to force them to become another droid for this stupid and broken system.

The real retards are the one's running the place. The staff and faculty. THEY need to be administered these shocks so they can be zapped back to reality.

Violence is not my thing, but I would have no problem dropping some sons of bitches who thought this is a probable solution for punishment.

I am seething with discontent and I am heartfelt for these kids who have to go to this place every day... and those who understand that they will be punished for just being who they are.

My fucking God we have failed as a fucking species.
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with you.. thank you sandi for posting.. I'm fucking sorry I saw this post..
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Here's a Y-tube I pasted into the OP for those wanting more info or more validation:

[link to video.godlikeproductions.com]


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I'd like to add to this petition that the people who did the shock treatments be hooked up to their own machines for a good long taste of what they shelled out.
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That would be fun to watch.

I'd like to watch Bush and Cheney get waterboarded as well.

And the current clown on the receiving end of a drone strike.
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Honestly, we as a society should be ashamed that they still have students to shock and that this for one second being put in a petition.

Has everyone lost their minds? Have we sunk so low that we are actually debating whether its OK to use shock treatment on special needs children?


Our only purpose on this earth is to protect the children and learn compassion. Why has that become so fucking hard for people?
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Our society is buckling. It's individuals are being blinded by greed, hiding from fears or choosing to be obliviously distracted, mostly because they are being controlled in ways that they don't even realize. It's what happens when we let the lunatics run the show.
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[link to www.change.org]

The human rights abuses taking place at the JRC are well documented. The United Nations is aware of the JRC and has called these shocks “torture”, and says that “The prohibition of torture is absolute.” Yet the school continues to use a powerfully painful electric shock device on students to control their behaviors. These devices are reportedly much stronger than police stun guns and were created by the founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center.

The Judge Rotenberg Center must immediately stop its practice of shocking special needs students.

Rather than shocking students for only severe behaviors, student behavior plans at JRC dictated that we shock certain students for even the most minor of behavioral issues like closing their eyes for 15 seconds while sitting at the desk, pulling apart a loose piece of thread, tearing an empty used paper cup, or for standing up and raising a hand to ask to go to the bathroom. In some classrooms, very often students who observe their peers being shocked react in fear by standing up out of their seat, yelling or crying, or throwing down their task -- and are then shocked for these reactions.

A non-verbal nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy was shocked as part of her behavioral plan for making a moaning sound and for attempts to hold a staff’s hand (her attempts to communicate and to be loved).

(50% rule observed)

[link to video.godlikeproductions.com]


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Done
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Strange, I had youtube vids, not godlikeproductions.com vids.

But they still seem to work, so... 1dunno1
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I'd like to add to this petition that the people who did the shock treatments be hooked up to their own machines for a good long taste of what they shelled out.
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ohyeah
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as a parent of a disabled child, this treatment disturbs me to no end.

My heart cries out to the children that these 'so called' teachers torture.

Why in the HELL doesn't the black/white fake in the White House put an immediant end to this practice?
Why the fuck does it have to go through ANY red tape channels?
Its torture pure and simple. Any one who did that to one of their own kids we would be in jail so fast it would make a head spin AND we would be charged with child abuse to the inth degree and the child removed for life.

Why are these vermin allowed to do this to children?

I'm sitting here crying as I cannot believe that an entire school of adults are so willing to torture children and not be disgusted with themselves. We do not live in the dark ages anymore.

From the video - its fucking worse than a shock collar on a dog.

So many people bitch about abortion - this is worse!
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this is like a twilight zone episode. I can't believe this is even real
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The death penalty by hanging is about the only punishment suitable for these monsters. That goes for the government sanctioned torture of innocent people deemed "enemy combatants," as well. In George Washington's time those who tortured from inside Washington's army faced hanging and so be it today, all the way to the top by fair judicial process. We are looking today at treason in the worst terms, high crimes.

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seriously what is going on in massachusetts
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WTF??? There's no way this shit still goes on here.snarl
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The human rights abuses taking place at the JRC are well documented. The United Nations is aware of the JRC and has called these shocks “torture”, and says that “The prohibition of torture is absolute.” Yet the school continues to use a powerfully painful electric shock device on students to control their behaviors. These devices are reportedly much stronger than police stun guns and were created by the founder of the Judge Rotenberg Center.

The Judge Rotenberg Center must immediately stop its practice of shocking special needs students.

Rather than shocking students for only severe behaviors, student behavior plans at JRC dictated that we shock certain students for even the most minor of behavioral issues like closing their eyes for 15 seconds while sitting at the desk, pulling apart a loose piece of thread, tearing an empty used paper cup, or for standing up and raising a hand to ask to go to the bathroom. In some classrooms, very often students who observe their peers being shocked react in fear by standing up out of their seat, yelling or crying, or throwing down their task -- and are then shocked for these reactions.

A non-verbal nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy was shocked as part of her behavioral plan for making a moaning sound and for attempts to hold a staff’s hand (her attempts to communicate and to be loved).

(50% rule observed)

[link to video.godlikeproductions.com]


 Quoting: Sandi_T


Just signed the petition against using shock treatment.bump





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