Tag: Boot camps

According to an investigative report by the Tampa Bay Times, religious exemptions allow unlicensed religious homes in Florida to abuse children and go on operating for years.

State authorities have responded to at least 165 allegations of abuse and neglect in the past decade, but homes have remained open even after the state found evidence of sex abuse and physical injury.

A San Antonio church pastor on Tuesday denied accusations that he dragged a teen behind a van in Banquete during his Christian boot camp last summer.

A battle has erupted in the Orthodox Jewish community over a Brooklyn teenager sent by his prominent family to a behavior boot camp accused of terrifying abuse.

Investigators have catalogued the abuse of thousands of teenagers and the deaths of at least 10 minors at American boot camps.

The idea that punishment can be therapeutic is not unique to the Rotenberg Center. In fact, this notion is widespread among the hundreds of “emotional growth boarding schools,” wilderness camps, and “tough love” antidrug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. No fewer than 50 programs (though not the Rotenberg Center) can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an antidrug cult called Synanon.

TAMPA, Fla. — A pathologist who observed the second autopsy of a 14-year-old boy who was punched and kicked by guards at a juvenile boot camp said Tuesday the boy may not have died of a blood disorder as a medical examiner had ruled. Dr. Michael Baden, who observed the new autopsy on behalf of the teen’s family, said it was clear Martin Lee Anderson did not die from sickle cell trait, or from any other natural causes. Anderson was sent to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office boot camp on Jan. 5 for a probation violation. A surveillance video showed

PANAMA CITY – The body of 14-year-old who died after he was beaten at a boot camp for juvenile offenders was exhumed and sent to Tampa on Friday for a second autopsy. Martin Lee Anderson died Jan. 6, one day after he entered the Bay County Boot Camp. A surveillance video show a half-dozen guards punching and kneeing him. The Bay County Medical Examiner blamed the boy’s death on a blood disorder, sickle cell trait, not the beating. Family members, state civil rights advocates and some doctors disputed the autopsy findings. At the request of the Bay County state attorney,