Comments on: #2 - Tee Pee Camp http://www.63days.com/2-tee-pee-camp/ 63 Days Of My Life, In All Their Glory Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: lexi http://www.63days.com/2-tee-pee-camp/#comment-5732 lexi Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:36:18 +0000 http://www.63days.com/?p=24#comment-5732 i wouldnt agree with what you said about these camps have scarring more children than child molesters over the last 20 years, but i will agree that what has happened here is an outrage. i was sent to a military school when i was 16 and many similar things happened there... in fact, they were shut down because of these very things fairly recently. i found out later that the school told parents that their children would send letters "lying" to them about what was going on and cautioned them not to believe us. im still mad about it... i havent really talked about it and i don't think about it, that is until i came across this blog. hopefully, reading this can help me and others to heal our own wounds, and help the author heal her wounds too. im 24 now, but when i read this i feel like im 16 again. i wouldnt agree with what you said about these camps have scarring more children than child molesters over the last 20 years, but i will agree that what has happened here is an outrage.

i was sent to a military school when i was 16 and many similar things happened there… in fact, they were shut down because of these very things fairly recently. i found out later that the school told parents that their children would send letters “lying” to them about what was going on and cautioned them not to believe us.

im still mad about it… i havent really talked about it and i don’t think about it, that is until i came across this blog. hopefully, reading this can help me and others to heal our own wounds, and help the author heal her wounds too. im 24 now, but when i read this i feel like im 16 again.

]]> By: Larry http://www.63days.com/2-tee-pee-camp/#comment-2538 Larry Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:15:09 +0000 http://www.63days.com/?p=24#comment-2538 I have a friend who's son was sent to one of the Boot Camps in the late 80s. He was repeatedly sodomized by the staff, as well as other students,Prostituted to local contractors, Beaten when he refused to do assigned tasks, stripped and humiliated (they would make the other students urinate on him and throw feces at him) and otherwise tortured during the four and a half months that he was there. To this day, he has not spoken to his mother, who admitted him without his father's knowledge (his parents were divorced). It took four and a half months of legal battles for his father to secure his release, and permanent custody. Once the boy was finally returned home, the father entered into a lawsuit against the particular camp, which filed bankruptcy to avoid paying the multi million dollar decision. The camp system has permanently scarred more teens than all the child molesters of the last 20 years. The people responsible for the operation of the camps, including the staff, should all be behind bars and tortured in the same ways that the children were tortured! I have a friend who’s son was sent to one of the Boot Camps in the late 80s. He was repeatedly sodomized by the staff, as well as other students,Prostituted to local contractors, Beaten when he refused to do assigned tasks, stripped and humiliated (they would make the other students urinate on him and throw feces at him) and otherwise tortured during the four and a half months that he was there. To this day, he has not spoken to his mother, who admitted him without his father’s knowledge (his parents were divorced). It took four and a half months of legal battles for his father to secure his release, and permanent custody. Once the boy was finally returned home, the father entered into a lawsuit against the particular camp, which filed bankruptcy to avoid paying the multi million dollar decision. The camp system has permanently scarred more teens than all the child molesters of the last 20 years. The people responsible for the operation of the camps, including the staff, should all be behind bars and tortured in the same ways that the children were tortured!

]]> By: Suzy http://www.63days.com/2-tee-pee-camp/#comment-51 Suzy Wed, 11 May 2005 16:17:19 +0000 http://www.63days.com/?p=24#comment-51 Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you so much. We are the same age, and I remember hearing about those "camps." Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you so much. We are the same age, and I remember hearing about those “camps.”

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