Footage of Judge Rotenberg Center torturing a person with a disability aired in court (Graphic)

Photosensitive epilepsy warning. Also, graphic and disturbing footage. Sign the petition from a former staff member: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-m...

Take a look at my blog, where I write about disability and autism issues: http://autistichoya.blogspot.com

Latest news article: http://hosted2.ap.org/RIPRJ/94df67899...

For an article from a liberal and progressive news site on the Judge Rotenberg Center (for everyone upset because it's Fox), see http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2...

Original news article at http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/u...

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This is NOT electrostatic or electroconvulsive therapy used for some mental disabilities such as depression or bipolar disorder. This is electric SHOCK used as a punishment.

Andre was asked to take off his jacket. When he refused, staff electric shocked him and he tried to hide under a table. They dragged him out and tied him facedown to a restraint board where he was kept for seven hours without a break, and shocked a total of thirty-one times. In court, it was admitted that all but one of those electric shocks were for tensing up or screaming.

If you are horrified, disgusted, and sickened by what you just watched, please contact the members of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities. There are four bills currently assigned to that committee that target the JRC. Read more about the bills (and see links to their full text) here: http://www.autismeducationproject.org...

The Senate Chair is Michael Rodrigues.
Phone: 617-722-1114
Email: Michael.Rodrigues@masenate.gov

The House Chair is Kay Khan.
Phone: 617-722-2011
Email: Kay.Khan@mahouse.gov

Call and email and let the members of the Committee know that you support S. 49, S. 50, S. 51, and H. 77. Urge them to report those bills favorably from committee.

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Read the first-hand coverage written by a friend of mine who attended the trial against the JRC last month, in which Andre McCollins's family sued the JRC:
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/t...
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http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/t...
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For Occupy JRC, visit http://occupyjrc.org -- there will be a protest in Massachusetts on 2 June 2012!

For more information on related cases, like http://www.facebook.com/endabuseinschool and visit http://www.autismeducationproject.org

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This video comes from Fox News. No copyright infringement intended. ALL rights belong to Fox. This is being distributed to call attention to the torture and abuse perpetrated by the Judge Rotenberg Center against people with severe disabilities, all in the name of treatment. The footage aired on 10 April 2012, the same date that this footage of Andre McCollins was shown in open court after repeated attempts by the JRC's lawyers to prevent the video from ever being seen by the public.

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[CrsUzumaki21]

If that was my son, I would have killed all of them as revenge for this madness.

[patediale]

If the truth be told, the aversive treatment doesn't work, I say that as someone who had

worked at JRC in 2001. I resigned shortly after I was attacked by one of the student.

[Luke Holloway]

and you would have got away with it too

[DallasCowboyzfan9]

i fucking hate people sometimes.

[ShesXaXGee]

I used to be a student in this shithole. pretty as it looks inside and outside. this place is hell. once they gave me a home visit. I never came bak.

[ShesXaXGee]

the most aggresive autistic girl in JRC was Irene. staff new not to fuck w. her or tell her to take her coat off. that girl would fight the GEDs and still want to get you.

[Gina Risner]

Not Acceptable Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Erin idk]

What delusional world do you live in? Torture like this shouldn't be allowed for treatment of ANY medical condition, mental disability, or misbehavior. People would care.

[spemat31]

if the kid had bipolar disorder, nobody would give a shit...

[LittleGigiK]

I can't believe people do this!!!

[Nattles17]

They deserve to be fucking tortured to death. Evil, evil people!