Washington DC Mayor to Pull Children From Rotenberg Center.

A seen in this report, at least some politicians are doing the right thing, and getting the children out of this horrible place.

Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration will get nine local children out of a Massachusetts shock-therapy clinic “within 90 days,” the mayor’s top adviser told The Examiner.

“It is unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable to have our kids at that school,” said Peter Nickles, Fenty’s legal adviser, referring to the Judge Rotenberg Center. “We are taking steps right now so that within 90 days, those kids will be out of the Rotenberg school.”

As reported by The Examiner, dozens of mentally disabled children from the District of Columbia have been farmed out to Rotenberg for more than a decade, costing the public millions of dollars.

The center specializes in “aversive therapy” such as electroshock backpacks and has been the subject of dozens of abuse complaints to Massachusetts authorities for more than a decade.

The Examiner reported last week that Massachusetts officials have opened a criminal investigation after a Rotenberg student made a prank phone call and ordered three of his fellows hooked up to electric-shock machines.

Two of the students were shocked at least 77 times, state documents show.

E-mails obtained by The Examiner show that D.C. officials continued to refer students to Rotenberg even after Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ordered the clinic stricken from the approved vendors list. Despite evidence that city officials were behind the blunder, Nickles blamed the children’s parents and their lawyers for standing in the way of getting the kids out of Rotenberg.

“We’re going to talk to parents,” Nickles said. “We’re in the process of finding alternative placements and we’re going to get this done.”

Documents obtained by The Examiner show that school officials have tried but failed to find alternate schools for the students at Rotenberg. Part of the problem is that at least four of the students are at least 18 years old and few other schools will take in adults, internal e-mails show.

Rotenberg spokesman Ernest Corrigan didn’t respond to requests for comment.

News of Nickles’ promise was welcomed by District Council Member Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, an outspoken critic of Rotenberg — and the D.C. bureaucrats who consigned the city’s children there.

“All I can say is, the sooner, the better,” Cheh told The Examiner. “It should have been done before now.”