Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has filed a report and urgent appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center for the disabled, located in Massachusetts, violates the UN Convention against Torture.
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Shocking Claim: Human Rights Group Says NY Students Sent to Mass. for "Torture" - (MA, Judge Rotenberg Center)
Teen who was electric shocked for months says, "It was just wrong."
Diagnosis: ADHD—or Is It Trauma?
Hyperactive, yes. Attention problems, check. But it's not ADHD.
Medically Reviewed By: George T. Grossberg, M.D.
When Dawn adopted her 7-year-old nephew, Dylan (not their real names), she expected a difficult initial adjustment. The 51-year-old Wisconsin homemaker, who is married to an attorney, has 10 children—8 adopted, 2 biological—and jokes that her occupation is "laundry." She knew that Dylan had been starved and neglected by his cocaine-addicted mother.
Father: Son mistreated at rehab center - (Pathway Family Center )
I-Team 8 has learned a formal complaint has been filed with the state attorney general against an Indianapolis teen rehab center. At issue: a father who claims his son is being mistreated inside Pathway Family Center in Castleton
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Teen's death in Parma is ruled homicide ( OH, Parmadale Family Services )
Cuyahoga coroner says Barberton girl choked while being restrained at treatment facility
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