Posted on 12/28/2020 2:43:31 PM PST by TexasGurl24
Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight.
Washington, now 30, recounted the events in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon and said his experience at the camp resulted in a 2003 lawsuit that ended two years later, when Washington says he and his family received a large financial settlement.
Washington’s account of the 2002 events provides the first direct insight into the alleged abuse and neglect that transpired at Camp Farthest Out, which Warnock oversaw as senior pastor of Maryland's Douglas Memorial Community church, and raises new questions for the Democrat, who is currently vying for a Senate seat in Georgia.
Washington expressed surprise when he was told Warnock is currently running for U.S. Senate in Georgia. "I don’t think nobody like [Warnock] should be running for damn Senate nowhere, running a camp like that," he told the Free Beacon. "He should not be running for government."
Warnock has faced scrutiny over his 2002 arrest for allegedly obstructing a child abuse investigation by Maryland State Police that centered on the camp's treatment of children. Washington's account is buttressed by records from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, obtained by the Free Beacon earlier this month, which indicated that campers were routinely left unsupervised; staffers were not subject to required criminal background check; and at least five cases of child abuse or neglect were brought against the camp's director, who was ultimately forced to resign.
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Hello Muddah
Hello Faddah
Warnock was actually arrested back in 2002 when this happened after he tried to cover up the abuse, but then strings were pulled in corrupt Baltimore and he was released and the charges dropped.
If he were white.....
Compare how the media is covering up for the serial abuser and wife beater with what they did to Roy Moore and Richard Murdock.
Until the media is destroyed, we can’t be free.
What was his alleged offense? Or should I ask?
Sorry about that.
Probably refused to say “G... D... America.”
A youth camp like that, for inner city kids, has to be tightly run to prevent this type of abuse and to keep its campers from turning it into “Lord of the Flies II.” Hell, even Boy Sodomites of America camps for middle class kids need to be tightly run to prevent all sorts of horrors. Looks like the good Rev. didn’t just drop the ball; he threw it away when he saw the cops coming.
In the article it is explained he wet the bed.
My mother sent me to camp every summer against my will. As usual, i was subject to bullying and abuse from not only my fellow campers, but the counselors as well. The counselors that didnt bully me, turned a blind eye to those that did.
The last camp i went to, within my first 24 hours there, the head counselor physically assaulted me by slamming his hand into my back, sending me flying to the ground. Which resulted in a hand shaped bruise on my back.
Next morning, before breakfast, all campers assembled in front of the flagpole. There, they broke out into a song in jewish. Having attended a yeshiva, a jewish school, i was familiar with alot of jewish songs. But this wasnt one of them. So i respectfully stood there, not singing anything.
After they all stopped singing, the same head counselor who assaulted me, told me and a few other guys to approach him at the flagpole. We did, and he said he saw us not singing. So, he ordered us to sing the american national anthem in front of everybody. We did, we knew the song but out of sheer embarrassment and shyness, we stumbled through the song while looking at the ground and kicking the dirt at our feet.
After breakfast, i wrote my first letter home. My mother, being a cheapskate, supplied me with pre-paid postcards instead of envelopes and first class stamps. As a result, i had no privacy with my mail. When you wanted to mail something, you dropped it off at the camp office. There wasnt an official usps mailbox in sight in the camp.
In my first postcard i wrote how within my first 24 hours i was physically assaulted by the head counselor, made to be humiliated in front of all the other campers by the same guy, and how we were banned from using the rowboats on the lake for 2 weeks (which was half our time there). Then i dropped my postcard off at the office to be mailed. Of course, they never mailed it.
I wrote home 1-3 postcards a day, every day for the entire month. Most of it was about what a terrible time i was having and listed the latest abuses i was subject to.
After camp was over and i returned home, i learned my mother received only 4 of my postcards out of the dozens i wrote. 3 of which were innocuous messages much ado about nothing. 1 which was a phony “having a great time. Wish you were here” message that the camp forced us campers to write. Anytime i had something bad to say about my experiences in camp (and they were many) in my postcards home, instead of mailing them, they destroyed them.
A summer camp counselor forced me to eat soap once for speaking a forbidden word.
Most of the counselors were college students with summer jobs, and they were great, but there was also a group of older men, probably teachers, who were involved with “activities” that seemed odd to me at the time, but in retrospect, they definitely crossed the line. No rape that I am aware of, but a form of physical abuse was practiced that would get them fired today, if not arrested.
Summer camp can be hard for kids who don’t fit in. I never went to one because my parents couldn’t afford it. However, come high school, I joined Explorer Scouts and had a number of great trips with them. All of childhood is not beer and skittles and all mothers are not saints. The reason one sees relatively little of people writing about how unpleasant their mothers actually were is such writing tends to reflect badly on the writer. I’m one of those who’s usually refrained from such writing for that reason.
So much for we have to believe the woman!
Sounds a lot like the “church camp” that I went to for only a week when I was eleven. It was terrible too.
Pedophilia occurred at this camp.
How many claims are false? How many are driven by the relaxed sexual abuse statute of limitation rules caused by the Catholic church sex abuse scandals?
Bas turd. I despise people who mistreat children and animals.
What the hell? That sounds like Camp Crystal Lake with Jason as the head counselor. I’m sorry you experienced that! Evil can hide behind the scenes of places where children are congregated, away from home.
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