hearing is the screaming and the pleading of an 18-year-old autistic student at the school, andrei mccaulens. he's scream, pleading, riving in pain face down with a helmet on. apparently shocked 31 times on this day over seven hours, in what the school is calling treatment for aggressive behavior. >> this is shock treatment? >> this video is from 2002, from ten years ago, but it's just coming to the surface now, because there's been a big battle over this clip for the past eight years. eight years ago the school convinced a judge to keep this video hidden. >> hmm. >> concealed from the public, until now. because it's being used as evidence in a urtroom and mccle f suing this school saying that this was flat out torture, and fox 25 in boston had their cameras in the courtroom and the judge allowed them to record this video and put it on their air. they're the first ones to of record and capture these images. >> if it was some sort of legal treatment, they'd have no qualms about it being out. >> apparently this particular disciplinary action was a result of mccaulens refusing to take his jacke