This is shocking, beyond belief..

I make no apology for the pun, because quite frankly, this has got to be a joke, right?

Two special education students at the controversial Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton were wrongfully delivered dozens of punishing electrical shocks in August based on a prank phone call from a former student posing as a supervisor, a state investigative report has found.

It seems that an ex (or runaway)”patient” of this “Educational Center” in Boston, made a late night call to the facility and duped some of the staff on the night shift into giving two patients “extra shocks”.

School staffers contacted state authorities after they realized they had been tricked on Aug. 26 into delivering 77 shocks to one student and 29 shocks to another, according to Cindy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the Department of Early Education and Care, which drafted the report. Both students were part of a Rotenberg-run group home in Stoughton for males under age 22.

As I understand it (and I simply cannot understand it), the kids were already wired up to receive electric shocks for aversion therapy. This ‘electric shock therpay’ was part of the treatment plan?

Further reports here:

A Taunton man said his 19-year-old emotionally disturbed son seemed to be thriving at a group home, run by the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, before staff members were duped into giving him 77 punishing electric shocks one night last summer.

I took a peek at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center page; self-flaggellatingly called “Effective Treatment.Org”

I wonder if those who fail to improve on this shock treatment get moved to Bridgend?