This is on point. I'm Megna Chocobardi. Back in 2002, 18-year-old Andre McCollins was

living at the Judge Rotenburg Center in Canton, Massachusetts. It's a facility for people

with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities. Andre has developmental disabilities and

growing up, when he got upset, he would sometimes kick or hit or break things. That's according

to Andre's mom, Cheryl. She told New York Magazine that Andre had to be hospitalized, at

least three times as a child for his uncontrollable behavior. So when Cheryl moved Andre to the

Rotenburg Center, staff told her about an electric shock device that they sometimes

used to treat residents. Cheryl hoped it would help with his aggression.

I thought human treatment and logic was going to be used for therapy. I thought it was a school

to help children with special needs and the way they explained the procedure to me that

this device would do that. So Cheryl gave her approval to use the device. So did a local

court. Andre wore the device. It's a backpack with electrodes attached to his arms and legs.

And when he did something, staff thought he should not. A worker could press a button

and give him a two second electric shock. One day, a staff member told Andre to take

off his jacket. When Andre didn't move, the worker shocked him. When Andre tried to

crawl under his desk, staff grabbed him and wrestled him to the floor. He was ultimately

tied face down to a restraining board and shocked 31 times. Video of this incident became

public 10 years later. Many disability rights advocates were outraged. And since the video

surfaced, they've spent years calling for these shock devices to be banned.

Protesters gathered outside the Judge Rotenburg Center in Kent this afternoon calling on

the school to stop what they say is torture. Absolutely. This is torture. United Nations

special repertoire on torture has said it is torture. That's protester Olivia Richard,

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