Boot Camp Cadet Dies at Fla. State Park ( 13-year-old cadet )

[norml]

Boot Camp Cadet Dies at Fla. State Park

Sunday August 13, 2006 5:16 AM


NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - A 13-year-old cadet at a private military academy died Saturday during an orientation camping trip, the school's principal said.

Authorities rushed the child from Oleta State Park to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, North Miami police said.

The cause of death was undetermined, pending a medical examiner's report, police said. No additional information was released.

The boy was one of 33 cadets attending the Back to Basics Christian Military Academy's Training and Leadership Corps campout. The students, in grades 4-10, had been camping since Wednesday, Lynda Browne, the school's principal and owner, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for Sunday's edition.

The boy got out of bed in the middle of the night to tell a drill sergeant he didn't feel well, Browne said. He boy collapsed on the way to the restroom.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6012171,00.html

[PSPS]

1. "Back to Basics Christian Military Academy" = "Bush Madrasah"

What kind of whack job would send their child to something called "Back to Basics Christian Military Academy?" Are we creating a "christian army" for bush's crusade?

(both are rhetorical questions.)

[BeHereNow]

3. Haven't you read the bible?

Jesus was ALL about military training...
NOT!

The fundie x-tians are the most UN Christian and
dangerous people in our society today, IMO.

We need to ship them all to an island along
with their Jews for Jesus buddies and let them kill
each other off.

The world would be a much better place without them.

BHN

[PassingFair]

30. Er, right....Onward Christian Soldiers! n/t

[geomon666]

2. Saw it on the local news.

One parent who had his kids there said he got them back sun burned and scratched up and covered in bug bites. Take it for what it's worth.

[soup]

5. Not surprised.

Florida - August - oppressive heat, melting humidity, swarms of mosquitos, almost daily thunderstorms -

Hey, let's send the kid to boot camp! drill sergeants - military marches - What a great idea (not).

There's a bit of an expanded story at the Miami Herald now -

The academy -- listed as a religious, military-style boot camp for grades 4 through 12 on a Florida Department of Education website -- seeks to train youngsters in leadership and discipline.

Browne, of Plantation, is listed as the contact, on the website.

A recording says, in part, ``We are changing the lives of children daily.''

The kids, ages 11 to 16, wore military fatigues and engaged in military marches and leadership training at the park's Boy Scout compound.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/15262024.htm

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Well, I guess this kid...

Got his life changed completely. Forever.

Kids are not little adults. They are kids.

[Jamastiene]

22. Yep from life to death (no life.)

That's just messed up.

[soup]

4. No wonder I couldn't find much info on this Academy

Back to Basics Military Academy is listed as a non-denominational religious military academy - with no accreditation - here:
http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/Information/directory/schoolreport.asp?filter=1&id=6

A search of the address listed for the 'Back to Basics Christian Military Academy' in Lauderhill brings up only a Living Word Fellowship church (can't find anything on this particular church).

Apparently, the academy has only been in business for one year:

>>Back to Basics Christian Military Academy, which serves students from fourth through 12th grade and is beginning its second year, is not regulated by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Students are referred to the school solely through word-of-mouth, and the school does not accept children with serious court records, Browne said.

"There are many children who are lost in the public school system," she said. "Our school will assist children academically and behaviorally. If they have issues in terms of structure, we meet the children where they are, whatever issues they have, whatever issues that their parents identify."

The academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp to conduct the orientation campout, which is run by trained and certified National Guard drill sergeants, Browne said.<<
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cbootcamp13aug13,0,7267986.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

So, they take in children 'with issues'? What does that mean?

From another report:

>>A classmate, 12-year-old Joanna Miller, said the teen had not been eating well, and had refused to drink water.

Junior Drill Instructor Marcella Miller, Joanna’s sister and the instructor responsible for feeding the teen, said the students were given ‘three square meals a day’, but claimed instructors were not able to watch the students to guarantee they ate.

That, she told CBS4’s Stone, was the responsibility of the students.<<
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_224202541.html

also at above link: local news video report

>>Browne said the boy's mother told her that her son "wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child."<<
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060812/APN/608120757

"wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child"? - Then, why on earth would she send her son to a boot camp run by drill instructors from something called the 'Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp.'(whatever the hell that is - I can't find anything)?

What is an 'orientation boot camp'? The only orientations we've attended have been held at the school. They consist of an assembly and a tour of the school to meet teachers and to help the child become familiar with the layout (office, gym, lunch room, locker area).

Almost 2 hours spent here, and that's all I can find. All of the articles found on this child's death stress that it wasn't a 'government-operated military-style boot camp' like the one that Martin Lee Anderson was beaten to death at in January of this year and the children at this Christian military boot camp were not subjected to any brutalization, nor are they maligned verbally.

I don't know. The death of a child under any circumstances just disturbs me immensely.

Christian Military Academy - those three words, strung together like that, forming one institution - scare the daylights out of me. Onward Christian Soldiers

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May this child rest in peace.

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edit to fix link

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Remember during the 2004 Election

That was stuff going on in FL and these types of schools? This is where they were getting their hackers from supposedly.

Little Bushbots for Jesus who will do anything for their god.

[Occulus]

10. Fear. Of. "Sissies."

"wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child"? - Then, why on earth would she send her son to a boot camp run by drill instructors from something called the 'Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp.'"

Hmm. I experienced something like this, although certainly not on this level. I was musically talented to the point that everyone around me knew it- but my parents wouldn't do anything about it until I figured it out for myself and joined band and choir on my own. But until then, my mom and dad did their best to make me into a good little breeder athlete.

Obviously, it didn't work, but the point is, they didn't want me doing what I was good at- probably because having a son that was very musically talented was, in their minds, akin to having a son who was very much a "sissy". Some parents think they can make their kid into a strong, athletic type, without realizing that some people were never meant to play sports, join the military, and so forth.

I don't know what kind of body this poor kid had, but from the wording it sounds like he was sort of scrawny, maybe; perhaps his area of talent was in books, or music, or art... but we'll never know now, because someone was just dying to, from what it sounds like, 'make him into a MAN!'

A whole lot of kids are going to suffer in this rising miasma of machismo- namely, the ones who aren't big and manly, and never will be. An entire generation has lost all appreciation for literature ("he reads too much"), classical musical talent ("he's a bandfag"), and pretty much anything having to do with anything that doesn't exert you and make you sweat, things that aren't on a team, things that require them to think a little.

And the race to the bottom continues. I know I'm reading probably too much into what happened here, but I think I know some of what this kid was dealing with, being "(not) the most physical, strong or athletic child". It's all part of the general race to the bottom, the basic acceptance of the mediocre as a virtue to which we should all aspire.

I'm gonna go cry in my beer now....

[JNelson6563]

23. You are so right on.

And this "camp" reminds me of footage I have seen of Nazi youth training. During some footage there was a man who had been in the camps narrating. He told of the boys being sent out to play army-type games and there were to be as vicious as possible. He said that the smaller/weaker boys often got hurt really, really bad.

Sick stuff.

Julie

[Tace]

8. Send 'Em To Military School... That'll Fix 'Em

My friend's dad sent him to military school at age 14 to keep him away from bad influences. He went from smoking an occasional bowl of pot... to snorting crystal meth... in about a week. Military schools are whacked.

[LostinVA]

13. That's because many (most?) of the students at them are "trouble" kids

Some of these kids may be true JDs, but I think most of them just need someone to talk to to help them with their problems.

[Acadia Blue]

9. Florida is so much like Texas now. Tuff love?

[jpak]

11. Did he die of "Sickle Cell" - like the last FL kid they beat to death????

Jebby will just look the other way like he did the last time...

[Auntie Bush]

12. Jebby only cares about non thinking citizens....like the BRAIN DEAD!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. He "had not been eating well, and had refused to drink water..."

I don't believe this...not if he was going through such a rigorous program.

My gut feeling is that there was abuse involved...perhaps even denying the kid proper food and water. Maybe I'm wrong; but I just don't trust these fuckers....

[soup]

17. This is one of those disturbing incidents

that I find I can't just let go of. It's beginning to sound like the child was sick all along and either nobody took the time to notice, or if they did, it may have been one of those "Oh, don't be a slacker/ crybaby/ or other words of choice. Suck it up and get out there." things.

Here's what a father of two other campers has to say:

Cadets Say Dead Fla. Camper Refused Food
By JENNIFER KAY , 08.13.2006, 07:53 PM

>Victor Jusino of Sunrise said his sons, ages 9 and 10, told him the boy continuously threw away food after the 33 cadets arrived early Wednesday at the Back to Basics Christian Military Academy's Training and Leadership Corps campout.

"They described to me that he wasn't eating. He wasn't feeling well. His stomach was hurting him and the heat was getting to him," Jusino said.
>snip<

Jusino said his sons told him they were given three meals a day after starting each morning with a long hike. But the boys were dehydrated, sunburned and had insect bites when he picked them up Saturday morning, he said.

"They were very dirty, their clothing was wet. They had been sleeping in wet clothes, and their hair had been cut," Jusino said.<
http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/08/13/ap2946391.html

"and their hair had been cut"?!?

The Sun-Sentinel has the same interview with the father with this little (and quite possibly Very Telling) addition:

>The oldest boy also told his father one of the drill sergeants had pushed him up against a tree when he failed to quickly obey a command.<
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0813cadet,0,1078792.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

My question for Mr. Jusino would be, "So, given that a child died 'in their care' and what your sons have experienced so far with this outfit, are you going to continue to send them there?" Have a sickening feeling I already know the answer without asking.

this from the Guardian:

Boot camps under fire as teenager dies after expedition

Richard Luscombe in Fort Lauderdale
Monday August 14, 2006
The Guardian

Private boot camps in Florida for the children of wealthy parents who want them to attend "character-building" courses were under scrutiny at the weekend after a 13-year-old boy collapsed and died.
>snip<

Private camps such as the Back to Basics Military Academy, which employs National Guard-certified drill instructors, are popular with parents looking to instil military-style discipline in their children.

Lynda Browne, the principal of the academy, said the children aged nine to 15 had been on a four-day orientation camp in preparation for today's first day of school.

"The children get the very best of care. Under no circumstances are our students brutalised, nor are they maligned verbally. They are treated with the utmost respect," she said.

She added that all of the children had been fed, watered and well cared for during various leadership exercises which, according to the Miami Herald, include marching in military fatigues.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1844026,00.html

"fed, watered and well cared for" - sounds like caring for livestock, not children.

this just bugs the hell out of me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Me too, Soup...

I'd like to meet this "drill sergeant". :grr: Sure doesn't sound like he was treating the kid "with the utmost respect."

[sakabatou]

19. If I were one of the leaders...

I'd send the boy to the hospital immediately. No ifs and or buts. However, since it is boot, they'll push until something slips and breaks.

[seafan]

26. Boot Camp Cadet Dies At State Park (another death in Jeb Bush's Florida)

This is a sickeningly familiar refrain in Jeb's Privatized Florida. Shouldn't the National Guard be in Iraq?? :sarcasm:

Jeb's National Guard is *Jeb's* National Guard.

Crikey.




http://www.news4jax.com/news/9671921/detail.html">Boot Camp Cadet Dies At State Park, August 13, 2006

snip

The cause of death was undetermined, pending a medical examiner's report, police said. No additional information about the investigation was released.
The boy was one of 33 cadets attending the Back to Basics Christian Military Academy's Training and Leadership Corps campout. The students, in grades 4-10, had been camping since Wednesday, Lynda Browne, principal and owner of the school, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for Sunday's edition.

The boy had been sleeping with the other cadets, when he awoke in the middle of the night to tell a drill sergeant he didn't feel well. The boy collapsed on the way to the restroom, she said.

snip

Browne said the academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp. The camp is run by certified National Guard drill sergeants.

snip

Brown did not return several phone messages or an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Messages left for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials were not immediately returned.

In January, a 14-year-old boy died after a confrontation with guards at a Panama City boot camp for juvenile offenders operated by the Bay County Sheriff's Office. Martin Lee Anderson died one day after being roughed up by guards.
His death remains under investigation. The state's government-operated military-style boot camp system was shutdown in May under a bill signed by Gov. Jeb Bush.

[High Plains]

15. "Christian military academy" Is that like the madrassas?

[femmedem]

16. This web site is a clearing house of info

on these so-called camps. It will tell you everything you wish you didn't know. Awful.

http://www.nospank.net/boot.htm

[artemisia1]

21. Great link, thanks. /nt

[pitohui]

20. in another story it says this child wasn't eating

i wonder how long he was ill and ignored, or if he had an eating disorder that the adults ignored

some other children are saying this child was giving away all of his meals or else just not eating if no one would take the food he gave away

sounds like e.d./anorexia and they ignored it because he was a boy

[femmedem]

24. Nausea is a symptom of heat exhaustion.

It was Florida, mid-summer.

[LostinVA]

25. Classic case of heat exhaustion, dehydration, etc.

I do long distance running on trails, and have friends who do REALLY long stance trail running (100+ miles), and hydrating and fuelling yourself is very, very difficult in heat and humidity, even when you know what you're doing, even when you have electrolyte caps, even when you can quit at any time. I myself have felt nauesous and ill in certain types of conditions.

I feel this boy didn't die, wasn't killed, he was murdered.

[soup]

27. Update

The child's name was Alex Cullinane. An autopsy was being performed today, with the results expected to be released in a few days. The following snips are from the Miami Herald. (subscription required)

Posted on Mon, Aug. 14, 2006

PLANTATION
Teen's camping death haunts mom
A grieving Plantation mother seeks answers after her 13-year-old son died abruptly while on a camping trip in North Miami.
BY ROBIN M. PEGUERO
[email protected]

Alex Cullinane was scared.

He had attended Plantation's Community Christian Academy since kindergarten, but after it closed this year, the 13-year-old would have to start anew. And his mother's school of choice, the Back to Basics Military Academy, stressed physical fitness. The history buff, who skipped the seventh grade last year and was supposed to start ninth grade today, was more brain than brawn.

''He likes to do what he's good at,'' said his mother, Dena Cullinane of Plantation.

And that wasn't athletics.
>snip<

Although the school often accepts children with behavioral and academic problems, Browne (the school's principal and owner) said it serves a diverse group of students.

''We felt a lot of our children needed a strong biblical base. They also needed a strong academic background,'' she said. ``Our teachers teach and our drill sergeants discipline.''

Alex did not need the discipline, according to his mother. He was a straight-A student, she said. The brown-haired, brown-eyed stocky kid won the Christian character award every year at his last school, and had an affinity for knickknacks relating to ancient Egypt. He was a spiritual intellectual, and physical acumen would have helped complete the trifecta, she said. ''He was wonderful, simple, sweet spirited,'' she said. 'He was loving, and always said `I love you.' ''<<
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15267681.htm

Videos:

Mother of Child Who Died at Military Camp Says "It's God's Will"
8/13/06 11:00pm CBS 4
http://cbs4.com/video/?id=[e-mail]

There's also a video interview with a 15 yr. old squad leader who was responsible for making sure the kids in his group performed the assigned physical activities.
http://cbs4.com/video/?id=[e-mail]


rest in peace, Alex

[LostinVA]

28. Damned heartbreaking

This made me cry. I want to castigate his mother, but I just don't have it in me right now to do it.... a nice, smart kid... who was sensitive enough to tell his mom he loved her... his kitty looking for him, but he'll never return to pet her and play with her.

Rest in peace, kiddo.

[iverglas]

29. Boot camps for kids. Sigh.

Mother Jones published an article about these atrocities several years ago:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/11/campfear.html

Five days after Gina Score arrived in Plankinton, she and 15 other girls from Cottage B began a mandatory 2.6-mile jog at about 6:30 a.m. on the gravel roads outside Plankinton's razor-wire fences. ... At roughly 7:45, after the other girls had reached the front gates, Gina staggered and collapsed 500 feet from the finish. Several girls tried to help her up, but staff members, believing one inmate who said Gina had acted this way before at a halfway house, were convinced they had a "behavior problem." ... "I was crying," says Christi Battis, a former inmate. "All the girls were crying. ... How could she be faking it when she was pale blue and wasn't even brushing the flies off her?" ... At 12:39 p.m., Gina was declared dead. "It was," said emergency room physician Jerome Howe, "the worst case of heatstroke I've ever seen."

A study by the Koch Crime Institute in Kansas found that "the fear of being incarcerated at a boot camp has not deterred crime," noting that nearly three out of every four children who pass through the camps are back in detention within a year. The National Mental Health Association concluded that "employing tactics of intimidation and humiliation is counterproductive for most youth" and has led to "disturbing incidents" of abuse. In Georgia, U.S. Justice Department investigators found kids being forced to crawl on their hands and knees to lunch, clean floors with their T-shirts, and run in summer heat while carrying tires. "The paramilitary boot camp model is not only ineffective, but harmful," the investigation concluded.

And this latest kid wasn't even being *punished* for anything ...

[Breeze54]

31. omg.....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_CAMP_DEATH_FLOL-?SITE=FLPEJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

:wtf:
snip-->
The Lauderhill academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp.
The camp is run by certified National Guard drill sergeants, principal Lynda Browne told the newspaper.

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In January, a 14-year-old boy died after a confrontation with guards
at a Panama City boot camp for juvenile offenders operated by the
Bay County Sheriff's Office. Martin Lee Anderson died one day after
being roughed up by guards. His death remains under investigation.
The state's government-operated military-style boot camp system was shutdown in May.

I wonder if these are the same "guards" (Drill Sargeants) now working at Alex's boot camp?
What the hell is wrong with these people!! arggghhh! :grr:

[soup]

32. Must Read - Update - School Closed

Posted on Wed, Aug. 16, 2006

CAMPER'S DEATH
Unlicensed academy closes doors
The principal of a Lauderhill Christian military academy wouldn't discuss the future of her school after city officials found it lacked an occupational license.
By AMY SHERMAN AND TODD WRIGHT
[email protected]

A Christian military academy that has come under scrutiny after a student died shut down Tuesday after Lauderhill officials discovered that it was breaking the law.

Back to Basics Military Academy never applied for an occupational license to start a school inside the Living Word Community Church at 5770 W. Oakland Park Blvd.

''They can't operate,'' said Jim Notarianni, Lauderhill code enforcement supervisor, who gave the academy and the church a notice of violation Tuesday. ``They are done here.''

Principal Lynda Browne would not comment about the school's next steps -- shaking her head when a reporter asked if she wanted to let parents know where they should take their kids today.
>snip<
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15282446.htm

From the above article - starting to dig up the dirt:

>>
In 1991, the state ordered Reginald Browne -- now an academy director and husband of principal Lynda Browne -- to stop referring to himself as a psychologist since he wasn't licensed in Florida.

In 1995, Reginald Browne was fired amid allegations of financial mismanagement from his job as CEO of Family Life Institute for Counseling, Education and Research, an agency that counseled at-risk youths.
<<

It won't bring Alex back, but maybe it will save other children.

[soup]

33. and the reason nothing could be found on

the 'Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp.'

>>"As far as accreditation and licensing and teachers and other things, we do not license them," said department spokeswoman Cathy Schroeder. "It is a parent-driven system." Browne said Saturday she contracted with Fort-Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corps to conduct the four-day camp. But the campsite was registered to the Back to Basics school, said park manager Steven Dale.

A search of Florida corporation records for the subcontractor shows no such group, although one by a similar name, Juvenile Military Boot Camp, appears. Browne and her husband, Reginald Browne, are its officers.

Over the weekend, a phone number for Back to Basics also reached an answering machine for Juvenile Military Boot Camp. Someone changed the message Monday, taking the boot camp name off.<<
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ccamp15aug15,0,6524097.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[soup]

34. Christian military academy opens in secret location

Posted on Thu, Aug. 17, 2006

School in camping death did not have proper permission
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAUDERHILL - A military academy attended by a student who died during a school-sponsored camping trip has been operating without the proper permits, city officials said.

Back to Basics Military Academy was sent a letter to cease and desist Tuesday, said Planning and Zoning Director, Earl Hahn. The school did not have an occupational license or a special exception use permit to operate out of a strip-mall, officials said.

"They can't operate," said Jim Notarianni, Lauderhill code enforcement supervisor. "They are done here."

The academy has 10 days to either get a license or stop operating in that location. After that, they face fines.

A telephone message left at the school Wednesday morning by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.
>more<
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/15290302.htm

So they've packed up the teachers, the 'drill sergeants', and the students, and gone into hiding.

Christian military academy opens in secret location after death of student, parents say

By Jamie Malernee, Akilah Johnson and Marlene Naanes
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted August 17 2006

A military school is operating out of an undisclosed location after being kicked out of a Lauderhill church for not having the proper permits, school parents said Wednesday.

Back to Basics Military Academy has been under scrutiny since one of its students died during a camping trip Saturday. Despite the death, parents support the school.

Lynne Miller said she is continuing to send her 12-year-old daughter to the Christian school because it is the only place the sixth-grader has flourished.

"We have tried other schools. were being suspended. They were being ignored, they were being chastised," said a tearful Miller, whose daughter has behavioral problems and attention deficit disorder. "Since she's been at this school, she hasn't been on any medication. She's a happy kid."

Neither Miller, an associate professor of education at Florida International University, nor Rebecca Chaparro, a Sunrise mother who said her 13- and 14-year-old boys are also attending the academy, would disclose where the school is now. Miller said most of its 32 students are attending at a "safe" place with teachers and drill sergeants.
>much, much more:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ccamp17aug17,0,6156039.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

WTF!? The article goes on to say that the city didn't even know the school existed until Alex Cullinane's death - and that the owner thought she could operate her for-profit McKay scholarship-funded christian military academy there because the church had a permit for a day care!?

As for the owner's claim that the camp was run by 'certified National Guard drill sergeants'?
>>"The Florida National Guard does not certify or train drill sergeants, said Jon Myatt, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Military Affairs."<<

So, who are these drill sergeants running the camp and posted in each classroom?

>snip<
NO LICENSE, NO PROBLEM

Apparently the lack of an occupational license had been no big deal to the Department of Education. The department provided the school $86,760 in 2005-2006 -- its first year -- in McKay scholarship money for disabled students. According to the state records, 14 of a total of 19 students were McKay scholars.

According to the application on file in Tallahassee, the school received the money though it offered no classes exclusively for children with special needs and offered no ``exceptional student education services.''

The academy was operated by Reginald Browne, who in 1995 was ousted as CEO of a private contractor supposed to provide counseling for at-risk youths amid allegations he had mismanaged and misused the grant money.

No matter. Browne's school, if it can land an occupational license, has asked for money for 27 McKay scholars this fall. The private Christian school will be blessed with your money. With only the scantiest state scrutiny.
>more<
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15290623.htm

Where is the FREAKIN' oversight???

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note:
I hope it's ok that I'm continuing to post updates on this thread. It just keeps getting stranger and stranger and I can't let go.

I have this feeling that the autopsy reports will come back with the conclusion that this child died from complications stemming from dehydration -
His mother will comfort herself by saying it was God's will rather than blatant neglect.
No charges will be filed.
Case closed.

And Damn it - While I'm at it, what's happening in the investigation into the death murder of Martin Lee Anderson?
Memory Hole?

[LostinVA]

35. I appreciate your posting updates -- thanks.