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Special school pupils ‘tortured’ in calming rooms, BBC investigation finds (www.bbc.com)

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Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine, the BBC has found.

Despite the school proving abuse in so-called "calming rooms", some staff are still employed there and have not been barred from working with children.

Parents say they have not been allowed to see the footage and were misled about the use of isolation.

Pupils were left alone in the rooms for up to four hours, with footage showing them naked, sitting in urine and eating crumbs off the floor

Children were "slammed", kicked and hit with force "without obvious justification", while rhino pads - often used in rugby training - were deployed to push pupils inside

The HR consultant identified more than 20 CCTV clips of excessive force and records of police notes described possible assaults - but despite this the Crown Prosecution Service did not recommend prosecutions

A whistleblower who worked at the school describes what they saw on CCTV as "torture" - and says the rooms were worse than cells

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[-] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Quite the opposite, sweetheart

The proper response to a crime like this is punishment with rehabilitation

The American response is "aN eYE fEr An EyE oooeee muh FREEDOM bible said so"

It's quite barbaric

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Yeah let’s blame the Lemmy user instead of the people who were body slamming and making these kids sit in their own piss. What kind of cunt thinks Americans are the only ones who have an emotional reaction to this type of behavior?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Odd thing to focus on.

Anyway neither of you are going to get your way with this because the abusive teachers in this story were never even fired let alone facing criminal charges.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

What? You put them in solitary just like they're putting kids in solitary. That way they learn what it's like to do that to someone else and then they won't do it again!

Boom! Instant rehab!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It's says a lot about the state of things that it's impossible to tell whether you're being sarcastic even with that last sentence..

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Rehab works. You can see how your system doesn’t with kids that bully other kids at school, they’re bullied by parent or someone else close to them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm like 80% sure that comment was sarcastic.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I’d like to think so but you never know.

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