School To Continue Electric Shock

WCVB Boston

Officials Give School One Year Extension

BOSTON -- State officials are allowing a controversial special education school to use electric shock treatments on students for another year.

But the state's Office of Health and Human Services said the extension for the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center comes with conditions.

The decision comes after an August incident in which two emotionally disturbed students were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call from a person posing as a supervisor.

After the Aug. 26 call, the teens, ages 16 and 19, 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 boy was treated for two first-degree burns.

Posted by Larry Winkler at December 23, 2007 8:01 PM
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