The 14 year old who was beaten by Fla deputies - Fox News is spinning it for the govt just like they spun various occurrences during Terri's Vigil. Fox is the govt's press agent. Seriesly. If O' Reilly gets upset about this dead kid, good for him but so far, Fox News is defending the large, adult deputies who beat the 14 year old child.
What a horrible tragedy, FV. I confused by why he was in the boot camp to begin with. I heard Fox report that he put in the camp due to a violation of probration? Why is the state putting kids into this boot camps?
A few years ago we had a situation concerning a boot camp here in my state. The boy was also only 14 years old. He looked even younger from the pictures showed by the media. In this case, the child passed out from being deprived of water and made to sit in the heat as some sort of punishment.
Instead of taking him to the doctor, the boot camp tried to handle it themselves by taking him to a motel and putting him in a shower. Which didn't help - the boy died. This happened in the middle of summer, out in the hot desert. At the time this happened, I couldn't understand why the parents would have voluntarily turn their child over to this boot camp. At the same time I felt very sorry for them. He was having some behavior problems and they thought being in this so called boot camp would help him. So sad.
The person who ran the boot camp was convicted and sent to prison. Hopefully those responsible for the boy's death in Florida will be brought to justice. Having an eye witness - the nurse, makes it more difficult for those who are saying his death was health related. I'm constantly amazed by the amount of news stories coming out of Florida. The percent of stories is way higher than the population of Florida should merit.
Please keep us posted on what's happening.