Photo of autistic boy gagged and bound to chair at children’s centre sparks outrage

[Jazzy]

A photo of a boy gagged and bound to a chair at a children’s centre has sparked outrage.

A whistleblower who works at the Golden Key Centre in Soviet Street, Russia, leaked the image of the ten-year-old on social media because he disagrees with the treatment.

He posted it online with the words: ‘This is how children are punished in the children’s centre Golden Key.

‘The centre employees have convinced the parents that it’s okay. The mother of the tied boy was convinced that such measures are necessary for development of her autistic son.’

But the centre’s director defended the decision and claimed it is normal practice.

And it has been reported that the boy’s mother agrees with the treatment.

Director of the centre Oksana Yudina, 44, hit back, saying: ‘We work with children who have schizophrenia, autism or other mental deviations. Some of them don’t take strong sedatives.

‘What do we do if a child starts throwing a chair at us? We cannot put a child in straitjacket if he makes some dangerous actions against us.

‘Our task is to teach him how to sit calm. A teacher ties the child to the chair and then counts to ten. Then the teacher unties the child’s feet and counts to five. Then he or she unties the child’s hands. The children’s parents know and approve of our methods.’

Sorry, this is nothing but child abuse in my opinion. If that were my child, heads would roll!

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