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Both New York City and New York State are now under fire for sending some of their disabled children to controversial and dangerous out-of-state facilities.
117 children have been sent to Judge Rotenberg Educational Center outside Boston, the only clinic in the nation to use electric shock therapy for disciplinary purposes. NY's education department spent $13 million on this. $6 million in addition have been spent to send 60 children to Woods Services facility in Pennsylvania, where an autistic student was left to die of heat exhaustion last summer in a locked van.
Veteran parents of children who have been to these facilities, as well as advocates, are loudly protesting the move. Evelyn Nicholson, 63, of Freeport, Long Island, told the Daily News that her severally autistic son attended Rotenberg from 2002 to 2006, where he 'received scores of electric shocks from which he never recovered.' Rotenberg's limit is 30 shocks per day for misbehaviors as minute as making a mess, according to an ex-teacher, who complained that it smelled of "cooked flesh in there."
The US Department of Justice is investigating Rotenberg and a group called Disability Rights International has released a report claiming Rotenberg's shock therapy to be torture rather than treatment. Its former director, Matthew Israel, resigned this summer after obstructing an investigation into the wrongful administration of shocks to two students in 2007.
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