A step in the right direction

Dear Editor:

What the U.N. couldn’t do, what Mother Jones in 2007 couldn’t do, what the town of Canton wouldn’t do, what the Department of Justice may have helped with, Attorney General Martha Coakley has done. Matthew Israel, the torturer of children at the Judge Rotenberg Torture Center, has pled guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice, lying to a grand jury and destroying evidence.

While there have been many “incidents” there, perhaps the one that actually makes him a convicted felon was the one in which someone called the workers and had two patients administer dozens of shocks one night a few years ago. After state Senator Brian Joyce has presented the bill to at least lower the shocking capabilities of those machines, nothing was going to be done by the pathetic state legislature. (Note: A ban on aversive therapy was approved by the Senate on Thursday, May 26.) Israel, dragging his victims up to the hearings, presenting them as a spectacle to the legislators, would always be able to get a parent to say, “Oh, they’ve done wonders for my child” and evade justice.

Justice has not yet been served, but at least he is no longer in a position to hurt those children. And Canton doesn’t have to continue to have a black eye around the world, concerning our sanctioning of the abuse of human rights right here on Route 138. The shocking, spitting, ridiculing, prevention of bathroom rights — you could see it all there. Knowing people who tried to work there but couldn’t stomach it, I know those tales of abuse were not made up.

Read this article in Mother Jones and see for yourself. Go to www.motherjones.com and search for “School of Shock.”

Cheers for Martha Coakley and her staff,

Alice C. Brown

Reservoir Circle

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Posted by Canton Citizen on Jun 1 2011. Filed under From One Citizen to Another, Opinion. Both comments and pings are currently closed.