themselves and others. recently outrage over the school exploded when the public for the first time saw video of a student being repeatedly shocked. his name is andre mccollins. the video showed him being shocked 31 times over the course of seven hours. it is difficult to watch. this was in 2002. mccollins was 18. he s no longer at this center. the video is part of a trial. those disturbing images also caught the attention of the u.n. central raptor juan mendez. he told a paper, the use of electricity on anyone s body raises the question of whether this is therapeutic or whether it is suffering tantamount to torture in violation of international law. he s looking for answers from the department of justice who launched this investigation two years ago. we asked the justice department for an update on the investigation, they told us it s ongoing and they wouldn t comment. the school says that no one else will take their students and that the electric shocks are better than huge
the school is in massachusetts called the judge rotenberg center. they claim that electric shocks and other forms of what they call aversive therapies are the only way to control some students who are a danger to themselves and others. recently outrage over the school exploded when the public for the first time saw video of a student being repeatedly shocked. his name is andre mccollins. the video showed him being shocked 31 times over an hour. i want to warn you, it is difficult to watch. this was in 2002. mccollins was 18. he s no longer at this center. his family recently settled a lawsuit against the jrc. those disturbing images also caught the attention of the u.n. central rap patory juan mendez. the use of electricity on anyone s body raises the question of whether this is therapeutic or whether it is suffering tantamount to torture in violation of international law. mendez is looking for answers. we asked the justice department for an update on the investigation, they
give his church tax exempt status. we re going to talk about that shortly, get reaction from the community live including some church members. the sermon in question heard on mother s day. pastor worley lashed out at president obama s support for same-sex marriage and laid out his plan for eliminating gays and lesbians. of our president getting up and saying that it s all right for two women to marry or two men to marry. i tell you right now. i was disappointed bad. i tell you right there as sorry as you can get. the bible s against it. god s against it. i m against it. and if you ve got any sense, you re against it. i had a way i figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but i couldn t get it past the congress. build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 mile long, put all the lesbians in there. fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. and have that fence electrified so they can t get out. feed them and y