N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died ( www.nbcnews.com )

A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents.

Staff at a North Carolina wilderness therapy camp failed to check that a 12-year-old boy was breathing during his first night at the facility, a state report released Tuesday found.

The boy, who has been identified in law enforcement records only by his initials, CJH, was found unresponsive around 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 3 at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents in the western part of the state.

stoly ,

Founded in 2008, Trails Carolina is a for-profit wilderness camp that treats children with diagnoses such as autism, ADHD, bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as those struggling with depression or unruly behavior.

Excuse me? You are sending your children with MEDICAL CONDITIONS to be scared straight by a FOR PROFIT company? How is giving them over to abusers going to help them?

RIPandTERROR ,
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I was sent to one of these with a hyper religious flavor

2.5 years.

stoly ,

Please tell me you have never spoken with your parents since.

RIPandTERROR ,
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Kind of. I broke contact in 2020. Now I'm about 6 months into transition and got a bit of hair work done, so I actually sent them one message today for the first time. No text. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/fe44c63e-a978-4d49-914b-d7d773dac09c.jpeg

stoly ,

Wow, that was a very brave thing. I don't know you but am proud of you for that. I am glad that you are getting to be your real self. Best of luck, and don't put up with bullshit.

FlyingSquid ,
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In case anyone wasn't aware, the 'trouble' many of these 'troubled adolescents' get themselves into is having a boyfriend or girlfriend that's the same gender they are. Or, worse, saying their gender is not the one assigned to them at birth!

Zorsith ,
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or they didn't sit there and quietly accept abuse

or tried to run away and got caught (and/or were found out before they even had a chance)

Or their parents don't like their friend group (not uncommon amongst the more hardline religious families)

There's probably plenty more I've forgotten since leaving reddit. The whole system is fucked and the "camps" shouldn't be legal.

The OTHER fun one is what I recall being referred to as "gooning", where the parents arrange for the kid to be picked up in the middle of the night, put in a vehicle, and driven to the camp. SOMEHOW that is legal and not human trafficking.

dohpaz42 ,
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Gooning is something unrelated. The term you’re looking for is called “kidnapping”.

wjrii ,

Often it's those, and they're heartbreaking. Sometimes it's "just" het-cis relationships the parents don't like. Sometimes it's "Drinking While Evangelical" or other garden variety youthful rebellion. Sometimes it's depression. Sometimes it's just literally wicked stepparents. The overriding connection is always that they don't need to be there and even if they have issues (and to be clear being LGBTQ+ is not a behavioral problem), the so-called solution will be much worse than the problem.

https://theconversation.com/the-program-netflix-show-exposes-the-dark-side-of-americas-troubled-teens-schools-225399

https://elan.school/rude-awakening/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeFWCzLNCmY

https://screenrant.com/the-program-netflix-documentary-details-events-missing/ (get your adblockers up for Screen Rant)

dohpaz42 ,
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What the actual fuck? There is so much to unpack from this article. I googled a bivy; it’s basically an enclosed sleeping bag. Before bivys, they would put a tarp over the zipped-up sleeping bag. Why? What’s the point in enclosing a child on their first night? Maybe to break their spirit? Show them you mean business? I can’t think of anything positive that could come from doing that to them.

And the “counselors”… they should be equally held liable. They heard things they were unsure of, but never thought to go check them out? That’s negligence.

I’m pissed. Beyond pissed. Everyone in that organization needs to go to jail. I pray that NC does the right thing and closes this torture factory down.

rtxn ,

Every "camp for troubled youth" I've ever heard of turned out to be a fucking concentration camp for kids full of physical, mental, and sexual torture and religious indoctrination. I wonder if this one also kidnaps kids in the middle of the night.

The entire idea should be made illegal.

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