Boy shocked 31 times for not removing coat

[Karlis]

18 year-old, Andre, receiving 31 electroshocks at Judge Rotenburg Center for the disabled (JRC) for not removing his jacket. Read more...

[Left-Field]

It's unbelievable what some people regard as "therapy" treatment.

Within the article linked to in the OP I couldn't help but notice that the Judge Rotenburg Center (for the disabled) also lists the use of the following as acceptable forms of "therapy" in their handbook:

• Overcorrection: Requiring, with physical force if necessary, a student to repeat an action many times
  
• Spanks, Pinches, Muscle Squeezes
  
• Vapor Spray to the face
  
• Brief Cool Shower
  
• Bad Tastes
  
• Aromatic Aroma broken under the nose
  
• Manual Restraint - such as the "basket hold" for a period of time
  
• Mechanical Restraints - such as handcuffs and / or ankle cuffs
  
• Takedowns: Several staff forcing a student to the floor and being held there until they stop struggling
  
• Mat Rolling: Rolling an individual into a mat or rug for a period of time
  
• PRN Injections
  Source

It seems parents can't trust any organizations with their kids anymore.

Edited April 13, 2012 by Silvergun Superman

[Englishgent]

I thought this sort of treatment of metally disadvantaged people went out with the Victorian era. Sadly it still goes on today and those responsible should be put away for a very long time......and every day given the same sort of treatment they dished out to those who for whatever reason were in their 'care'

[+and-then]

I cannot even imagine what success such "treatment" could provide or how it would be quantified.

I'm sure there is "science" that supports some degree of validity for "aversive" therapy or a center like this couldn't exist but this was sickening. This was like something you'd hear leaked from Guantanamo.

[Imaginarynumber1]

He probably should have taken off the coat.....

[Paracelse]

How normal ordinary people could even work in such an environment? The employes are just as much criminals as the bosses!

[lightly]

insane

[Babe Ruth]

How disgusting!

It reminds me of The Lucifer Effect, as described by Philip Zimbardo in the Stanford Prison Experiment.

And half of US christians approve of torture....ain't no wonder.

[Ashotep]

That's just torture, what a bunch of idiots.

[+DieChecker]

And I thought the shock collars that my Father-in-Law puts on his hunting dogs to train them is cruel. This is practically on the Soulless level of evil.