Mass. school prevails despite decades of opposition to its use of shocks for therapy [Video]

The video is 22 years old, but the sight of 18-year-old Andre McCollins shocked with electricity 31 times and restrained at the Judge Rotenberg Center still resonates.The video surfaced when his mother, Cheryl McCollins, sued the JRC, a case that was eventually settled out of court. She still doesn’t pull her punches.”I think that people have not realized who they are: criminally insane body-snatching savages,” she told 5 Investigates.Andre was sent to the hospital after that day and still brings it up from time to time.”I used to feel so guilty when he said, ‘Why did you send me there?'” she said. “I asked him to please forgive me. And I didn’t know.”For critics of the Judge Rotenberg Center, the video of Andre has come to symbolize all they believe is wrong with the JRC. That includes the United Nations, which has called the shocks torture. However, attempts to halt …