US School Hoaxer Ordered Punishment

[Shirow]

Two teenagers were given electric shocks by staff at a special needs school on the orders of a crank caller, it has emerged.
One of the vulnerable youngsters needed treatment for first-degree burns. Seven staff at the controversial centre have now been sacked.
 
The victims were both vulnerableFor part of their ordeal, the teens - aged 16 and 19 - had their legs and arms bound. One received 77 shocks and the other 29.

Staff at the Judge Rotenberg Education Centre, near Boston, had received a phone call ordering the punishment for the youngsters who, the caller falsely stated, had been misbehaving.

A report released to authorities in Massachusetts said the caller was a former resident with detailed knowledge of the staff, residents, and layout of the home. No motive was given.

Seven members of staff at the centre - which describes itself as a special needs residential school for people with behavioural problems - have since been fired.

School spokesman Ernest Corrigan said: "It was a perfect storm of things that went wrong that night."

The centre is believed to be the only school in the US that uses two-second skin-shock punishments to change destructive behaviour.

It has survived two attempts by the state to close it over allegations that its unorthodox methods amount to abuse.

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I was going to remark how nice that a special needs school treats its residents so wonderfully ... yet upon further thought ...
The US administration continue to torture illegal detainees in secret prisions ... so I guess its ok...
Setting the example yes?

[chibilolli]

LOL that's funny. Only in America eh?

I bet my mum wishes she could use that method on some of her pupils

[Shirow]

What does your mother teach?

[chibilolli]

Food Technology but she's also head of year 8 so she has to deal with truancy, drugs, underage sex, domestic violence. All that shit.