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November 1, 2007
Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care Investigation of Judge
Rotenberg Educational Center Group Home
On August 26, 2007, the Judge Rotenberg Center told the Massachusetts
Department of Mental Retardation that two teenage boys in a group home in
Stoughton, Massachusetts, had mistakenly received mild electric shocks
following a phone call from someone posing as a Center supervisor who
told the staff to wake the youth and administer skin stings as a
consequence for behavior that had allegedly occurred five hours earlier.
This report notes that the following procedural problems occurred:
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None of the staff had witnessed the alleged bad
behavior
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None of the staff verified the youths' treatment
plans or verified the orders with the Centers central office since they
believed the order came from the central office.
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