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Teen who was electric shocked for months says, "It was just wrong." Read full report by International human rights organization. And center that shocks children defends practice.
The following are posted comments to the new story. I thought these comments were powerful and wanted to demonstrate how major news stories such as this are swept under the rug by federally funded child welfare organizations with their mighty lobbyists who pay, with tax dollars, major public relations firms to generate sensational child welfare propaganda holidays (i.e. child abuse awareness month, adoption awareness month) to continue this practice, at estimated $220,000 per child.
For 1/10 the cost ($22,000) a child could receive in-home services, but then, that would put a multi-billion dollar operation out of business.
The saddest part of these egregious episodes is that nothing will ever happen to end these practices. Absolutely nothing except more lobbying with bigger and better and more colorful child abuse campaigns.
Welcome to the magnanimous world of Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.
anonymous In my previous post the address I gave for the Judge Rotenberg Center response to the Tim Minton story was incomplete. The complete address is: http://www.judgerc.org/v4. EMAIL TO MINTON (version for posting on JRC web site)1.DOC
bighilllex Please. Anyone who doesn't know and accept that abuse and neglect of children are the norm for children placed in residential "treatment" centers is fooling themselves. What is still most shocking to me is that people hearing about this will have one moment of "Oh... that's sad." and then will just move on. These are children. Nobody deserves to be treated like that. Even convicted felons and prisoners of war are not allowed to be treated like this.
If you think... morePlease. Anyone who doesn't know and accept that abuse and neglect of children are the norm for children placed in residential "treatment" centers is fooling themselves. What is still most shocking to me is that people hearing about this will have one moment of "Oh... that's sad." and then will just move on. These are children. Nobody deserves to be treated like that. Even convicted felons and prisoners of war are not allowed to be treated like this.
If you think this is an isolated incident, you are wrong. Psychiatric Solutions Inc., is abusing, neglecting, assaulting and letting children in their care die all over the country. PSI facilities in Virginia were some of the worst, but now Virginia's former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Marilyn Tavenner, (a huge supporter of PSI) is in charge of Medicaid - it will only get worse for everyone.
$220,000 a year for each child!!!!! Paid with your tax dollars!
Check out "Keep An Eye On PSI" on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=326364429203&ref=ts
Or read this story about Marilyn Tavenner and PSI in Virginia.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/MENT11_20100310-222606/329667/
Susan L.
Virginia
ANGA There's a dirty little secret of why the Judge Rotenberg Center has not been shut down-- besides the fact that we're in the middle of a raging autism epidemic that's overflowing schools and which medical authorities refuse to admit (or treat) the cause of. The secret is that JRC is the receptacle for the treatment "failures" of award winning special schools in the North East, often specifically children so drug damaged that they'll die if they receive another pill. JRC doesn't drug, it... moreThere's a dirty little secret of why the Judge Rotenberg Center has not been shut down-- besides the fact that we're in the middle of a raging autism epidemic that's overflowing schools and which medical authorities refuse to admit (or treat) the cause of. The secret is that JRC is the receptacle for the treatment "failures" of award winning special schools in the North East, often specifically children so drug damaged that they'll die if they receive another pill. JRC doesn't drug, it just shocks.
Some of the prominent special schools in Massachusetts for instance, particularly for autism, have psychiatrists on staff and routinely drug a high percentage of students. Check out the number of children at JRC with tardive dyskinesia (drug induced condition); it's emblematic of the numbers of children at JRC whose extreme behavior problems may have been worsened or outright induced by excessive drug treatments.
Another irony is that one of the schools in Massachusetts which has periodically "fed" the JRC is NECC, an "acclaimed" autism school which requires parents to sign contracts that they won't attempt to put their children on the "Jenny McCarthy diet" (gluten-free/casein-free/soy-free) to regulate behavior, despite the fact that thousands of parents have testified that their children's behavior improved in the extreme due to a carefully restricted diet. The school also frowns on parents who discontinue vaccination for their children with autism, despite the mounting evidence that a majority of autism cases appear to involve acquired mitochondrial dysfunction-- and despite the fact that many immune specialists advise against revaccinating individuals with mitochondrial disorders. The school's psychiatrists also administer drugs despite the fact that every class of psychoactive is specifically toxic to mitochondria. And they wonder at the failures.
Treatment failure of autism in general and failure to stop the epidemic is what keeps the JRC alive.
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