"We don't torture," President Obama said just days after taking office. Perhaps he is not aware of what is happening in his backyard -- to children with disabilities in Massachusetts.
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School for Disabled Forces Students to Wear Backpacks That Deliver Massive Electric Shocks (MA, Judge Rotenberg Center)
Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has filed a report and urgent appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center for the disabled, located in Massachusetts, violates the UN Convention against Torture.
Shocking Claim: Human Rights Group Says NY Students Sent to Mass. for "Torture" - (MA, Judge Rotenberg Center)
Teen who was electric shocked for months says, "It was just wrong."
Diagnosis: ADHD—or Is It Trauma?
Hyperactive, yes. Attention problems, check. But it's not ADHD.
Medically Reviewed By: George T. Grossberg, M.D.
When Dawn adopted her 7-year-old nephew, Dylan (not their real names), she expected a difficult initial adjustment. The 51-year-old Wisconsin homemaker, who is married to an attorney, has 10 children—8 adopted, 2 biological—and jokes that her occupation is "laundry." She knew that Dylan had been starved and neglected by his cocaine-addicted mother.
Father: Son mistreated at rehab center - (Pathway Family Center )
I-Team 8 has learned a formal complaint has been filed with the state attorney general against an Indianapolis teen rehab center. At issue: a father who claims his son is being mistreated inside Pathway Family Center in Castleton
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