Excerpt from: Media dis&dat (click for full article)
The devices used by a controversial Canton, Mass., school
to administers painful electric shocks to its disabled students for
treatment was the subject of a meeting today held by US Food and Drug
Administration regulators who say the Judge Rotenberg Center is using
unapproved and illegal machines.
The meeting also drew a handful of protestors to the FDA's Maryland campus.
The meeting and protest are just the latest development in a series
of actions against JRC since video of former student Andre McCollins
being restrained and shocked for hours was played in court.
The video, first aired by FOX Undercover, went viral, prompting petitions and protests to stop the shocks.
Critics call it torture, but the center says the device is only used
with court approval to stop destructive behavior like self-mutilation.
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