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Death of 12-year-old at North Carolina camp for troubled youth ruled a homicide (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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The boy died in February, less than 24 hours after having arrived at Trails Carolina, a for-profit program that has since lost its operating license. Trails Carolina has said the death appeared to be accidental and that staff members performed CPR after they found the boy unresponsive the morning after he arrived. He was inside a bivy, a one-person tent secured with an alarm.

The camp has said it routinely placed children in bivvies overnight for their safety when they arrived. The autopsy report said the inner mesh panel of the boy’s bivy was torn, so counselors sealed the outer, weather-resistant door panel instead, which was not the camp’s protocol.

Before its license was revoked, Trails Carolina, in Lake Toxaway, served children with behavioral issues and diagnoses such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism and post-traumatic stress disorder. A medical examiner’s report released with the autopsy findings said the boy who died had ADHD, anxiety, migraines and social challenges, including “a very hard time making friends.”

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Hate your kids? Send them to a Troubled Camp where they'll kill them. Good job parents.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 13 points 1 week ago

behavioral issues and diagnoses such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism and post-traumatic stress disorder. A medical examiner’s report released with the autopsy findings said the boy who died had ADHD, anxiety, migraines and social challenges, including “a very hard time making friends.”

Fuck this camp, and fuck this kids parents! And fuck all the parents doing this shit to their kids. Sending your kids off to some camp because they aren't neurotypical is fucking disgusting. And then not any camp, one that locks them up for a condition they have no control over, fucking hell. This is on the same level as all these assholes trying to "convert" or "rehabilitate" LGBTQ+ kids. Leave the kids alone you sick assholes, and deal with your own shit.

Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?* /rant

Stolen from Christmas Vacation

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought this was a bit absurd until I looked up what a "bivy" is, as I'd been assuming it was just a tent.

Yeah, not hard to see how a kid could suffocate by getting turned around in what is basically a watertight sack with two sticks added. Wtf? who puts kids, let alone kids with anxiety, into one of those things unattended? holy shit.

[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The autopsy report, issued by the state chief medical examiner’s office, said bivvies typically include warnings against fully enclosing the weather-resistant outer layer “as it may lead to condensation and breathing restriction.”

The asphyxia finding was a “diagnosis of exclusion, meaning all other reasonable causes of death” were ruled out, it said. The boy was “placed into this compromised sleeping position by other(s) and did not have the ability to reasonably remove himself,” the report said.

So they basically suffocated the child and didn’t bother to check up on them even once

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nono, see this was totally normal procedure. It was just a wild accident that the kid was sealed inside completely inverted. Not their fault. Clearly. For some reason. ~~If they'd left him the right way round, he might have set off the alarm?~~

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

A camp for troubled youth on Lake Toxaway? This shit just writes itself huh.