Founder of electric shock autism treatment school forced to quit

[Jan Klimkowski]

If the following account is correct, then Israel was not engaged in therapeutic treatment.

This is clearly using electroshock as a punitive measure on highly vulnerable (autistic) teenagers.

The criminal charges brought against Israel relate to an incident in August 2007 at one of the school's residential homes where students sleep at night. A call came in from someone posing as an authorised supervisor, who informed the carers on duty that two teenagers had misbehaved and should be given shock treatment.
At 2am, the boys were strapped on boards and given multiple shocks. One of the boys, aged 18, was shocked 77 times over a three-hour period and the other boy, aged 16, was shocked 29 times. It was later discovered that the initial call had been a hoax.
The Massachusetts attorney general, Martha Coakley, indicted Israel over allegations that he ordered his staff to destroy video evidence that revealed exactly what happened that night. Prosecutors had previously ordered that the video recordings from the home were preserved.

And, from Charles' comments, it looks as if the, ahem, noble profession of psychiatry has been tolerating this child abuse for decades.

Still, what should we expect from a profession that elected numerous MK-ULTRA "doctors" to the highest positions, including of course Ewen Cameron who served as President of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

Not forgetting all those shrinks who provided their expertise to the development of the US torture doctrine known as KUBARK, and provided their professional insights to torture chambers such as Abu Ghraib and the various black rendition sites.

The history of psychiatry is shameful.