School for disabled children uses electric shocks more powerful than stun guns to punish students
The Judge Rotenberg Center's method of disciplining students has been described as "unconscionable," with a human rights watch dog requesting the Trump administration to intervene.
A Massachusetts school for children with disabilities has come under fire from various human rights organizations after it emerged that they were still using electric shocks on their students as a form of punishment. Now, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an international body set up to uphold human rights across the Americas, has called on the Trump administration to interfere and put an end to the controversial practice.
According to the Guardian, the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, is the only school in the world that uses these shocks — described to be more powerful than the ones discharged by stun guns — as a form of "aversion therapy" on 47 of its disabled students.
