Tasing children: UK cops used stun gun on 407 minors despite UN warning
Hundreds of minors were tased by police across England and Wales between January 2014 and November 2015, according to a report by police monitoring group StopWatch.
They found children under 14 in 57 incidents of police using stun guns and submitted the study to the UN Committee of the Rights of the Child
The electronic weapons are used by police to temporarily incapacitate a suspect by using a jolt of current up to 50,000 volts and have been criticized by the UN as a form of torture.
The international law in relation to their use, which the UK has been signed up to since 1990, has been violated as a result of the practice, according to the watchdog organization.
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