They should have known better, and hopefully they will pay the price:
A special education school destroyed videotape showing two of its students being wrongly given electric shock treatments despite being ordered to preserve the tape, according to an investigator's report.
One student was shocked 77 times and the other 29 times after a prank caller posing as a supervisor ordered the treatments at a Judge Rotenberg Educational Center group home in August. The boys are 16 and 19 years old and one was treated for first-degree burns.
Social engineering is a big problem in many areas of information security, and cases like this prove that it can be a serious problem whenever you have stupid and/or gullible employees who don't verify credentials. The school obviously destroyed this tape in order to hide the evidence of what they did to the students, and that alone should get the administrators sent to prison. If they were so concerned about the safety and dignity of the students, as they claim, then they would have verified the orders that they had been given before carrying them out. That alone would have prevented this situation from ever happening, but because they were too lazy and/or incompetent to do such a thing, here we are.
For an accurate summary of what the Judge Rotenberg Center is really about, please go to http://www.judgerc.org/responsetoblogs.pdf