July 4, 2025 • 65 mins
SURVIVOR | JENNIFER MSUMBA || Least of These for Death Not Yet
Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts is a day and residential school treating children from as young as five, all the way through adulthood with intellectual disabilities, psychiatric difficulties and those on the Autism spectrum since 1971.
JRC has been surrounded in controversy with allegations of abuse since it was founded by Matthew Israel. There’s something in their treatment plan that separates them from every other school or institution serving students with disabilities in the United States- something that experts and the United Nations deem as torture. Something the FDA banned but is still being used as a treatment today – electric skin shock. Survivor of the Judge Rotenberg Center, Jennifer Msumba describes what life was really like at the Judge Rotenberg Center and what her life is like now.
Call to Action: Jen is an author, musician, member of Mensa and filmmaker. You can follow along on her socials. Jennifer Msumba (@jennifermsumba) • Instagram photos and videos
Actions: Sign the petition to end electric skin shock: Ban Electroshock Therapy » NeuroClasticLiving Archive of JRC abuse: Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom: Judge Rotenberg Center Living Archive « Lydia X. Z. Brown
This is a Podcaster’s Give Back collaboration.
All podcasters have donated their time and research to help advocate for victims of domestic violence. And we are raising money to give back to non profits which are standing with survivors.
To donate, please visit
buymeacoffee.com/youshouldbehere
You are wanted.
You are loved.
And you are not in this alone.
This is a Fire Eyes Media, LLC production www.fireeyesmedia.com
Don't forget to check out the previous series of You Should Be Here:
The Homicide Tree
Or No
and coming in October: Cases That Haunt Us
Connect with this episode's podcast host, Leah Dee with Least of These:
Least of These on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/leastofthesepodcast/LeastofThese
Discussion Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/288046119723080/?ref=pages_profile_groups_tab&paipv=1
Least of These on Instagram: www.instagram.com/least_ofthese/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leastofthesepodcast
Sources:
Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom: Judge Rotenberg Center Living Archive « Lydia X. Z. Brown
Judge Rotenberg Center: A History of Torture
The Shocking Truth
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-renewed-push-ban-shock-therapy-controversial-canton-center/SXVEXCTG3NDUDLOZJ4ITS6MJM4/
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Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts is a day and residential school treating children from as young as five, all the way through adulthood with intellectual disabilities, psychiatric difficulties and those on the Autism spectrum since 1971.
JRC has been surrounded in controversy with allegations of abuse since it was founded by Matthew Israel. There’s something in their treatment plan that separates them from every other school or institution serving students with disabilities in the United States- something that experts and the United Nations deem as torture. Something the FDA banned but is still being used as a treatment today – electric skin shock. Survivor of the Judge Rotenberg Center, Jennifer Msumba describes what life was really like at the Judge Rotenberg Center and what her life is like now.
Call to Action: Jen is an author, musician, member of Mensa and filmmaker. You can follow along on her socials. Jennifer Msumba (@jennifermsumba) • Instagram photos and videos
Actions: Sign the petition to end electric skin shock: Ban Electroshock Therapy » NeuroClasticLiving Archive of JRC abuse: Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom: Judge Rotenberg Center Living Archive « Lydia X. Z. Brown
This is a Podcaster’s Give Back collaboration.
All podcasters have donated their time and research to help advocate for victims of domestic violence. And we are raising money to give back to non profits which are standing with survivors.
To donate, please visit
buymeacoffee.com/youshouldbehere
You are wanted.
You are loved.
And you are not in this alone.
This is a Fire Eyes Media, LLC production www.fireeyesmedia.com
Don't forget to check out the previous series of You Should Be Here:
The Homicide Tree
Or No
and coming in October: Cases That Haunt Us
Connect with this episode's podcast host, Leah Dee with Least of These:
Least of These on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/leastofthesepodcast/LeastofThese
Discussion Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/288046119723080/?ref=pages_profile_groups_tab&paipv=1
Least of These on Instagram: www.instagram.com/least_ofthese/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leastofthesepodcast
Sources:
Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom: Judge Rotenberg Center Living Archive « Lydia X. Z. Brown
Judge Rotenberg Center: A History of Torture
The Shocking Truth
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-renewed-push-ban-shock-therapy-controversial-canton-center/SXVEXCTG3NDUDLOZJ4ITS6MJM4/
https://
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