• mikezane@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Search warrants filed by the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office said the boy was stiff and cold to the touch by the time first responders arrived, with his pants and underwear laying on the floor next to his shoulder.”

    This was a 12 year old boy. This camp should be completely shut down. And thid is the second camper to die in 10 years after another 17 year old died after they ran away from the camp. What is going on there?

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      It took regulators a month to shut the place down. After none of the staff could explain how a 12 year old is found dead and naked from the waist down, the state let them stay open for a month.

      And even then, the camp is complaining that “This negligent and reckless move by the State denied parents the opportunity to continue to care for their children in the appropriate manner"

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      It must be one of those “behavioral” boarding school type places. How these are still legal in America in 2024 is a mystery. There’s hardly one of them that doesn’t have some kind of abuse or neglect reported.

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    That’s the headline? The actual death doesn’t matter…

    They use kids as a whole for marketing.

    I didn’t read the article.

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      The article isn’t reporting on the death which was already covered soon after it happened. The article is reporting the Department of Health ordered the kids removed from the camp. It’s a follow-up and supplement to the whole story of the child’s death. There are plenty of insensitive headlines out there but this isn’t one in the way you’re calling out. It accurately describes the focus and content of the article.

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      They use kids as a whole for marketing.

      To what end?
      “A kid died and was potentially molested at our camp and now the remaining kids are being removed for their safety, send your kids to us!” ??
      I know they say no publicity is bad publicity, but seriously, in what world do you twist this shit in to “marketing”??

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        I already said I was corrected. I didn’t read the article.