Congressman Calls for Federal Investigation of Florida Boot Camp Death

I do hope these guys (and gal) are tried in a federal court. I saw the tape and this young man was murdered and the nurse allowed it to happen. I cannot understand how the jury voted aquital.

First off, to the family, DO NOT GIVE UP! Continue to strive forward and seek justice for your son! The nurse whom allowed and participated in this atrocity needs her [bleep] kicked. I hope appeals get a judge to overturn the acquittal. That crap was not/ is not “tough love”. We ought to be ashamed that we tolerate this to happen to anyone let alone our children.

I have never been so appalled as I was at the verdict of the boot camp guards and the nurse. I can’t understand how she could call herself a nurse and watch what happened to that child. What is wrong with this picture. If I spank my child on the behind I could go to jail for child abuse but men and a women that should be teaching our children can murder them and nothing happens to them! What is that?

It makes me sick to see the video of the BEATING. I hope Rep. Miller is successful of getting federal charges against those murderers. I hope the mother uses her anger to fight for reform of our juvenile justice system. Maybe his death could help prevent another mother’s child from getting murdered in state custody!!!

It’s understandable that the child was in the camp for disciplne. Which myself as a parent, I think kids get away with too much. But all honestly, what kind of trouble would a parent be in if someone taped a parent doing this to their own child? The first thing they say to parents, hitting your child all it teaches them, to solve a problem with violence. In this case the child can’t even learn that because he is no longer here. Mean while everyone else continues life like nothing. Hugging and kissing their own children and family. And if the child did have a medical condition, thats the parent responsibilt to say so. She is stil here also, her son is not.He has paid the price as most kids do, pays the price for their parents oops.

How can 8 people including a medical professional claim a dying teenager is uncooperative, and hold his mouth closed to force him to breath ammonia which is supposed to be inhaled in limited amounts to help revive someone? Even worse, how can a jury acquit the killers? Did none of these paid public servants have the intelligence to yell “Stop!”, or were they just a mob? If these so called professionals and those who gave them “orders” and are responsible for their actions can’t be convicted of child abuse, no one in the country can.

“The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.”~~Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. The guards were indifferent when they brutally beat this young boy child to death. The nurse on duty was indifferent when she stood by and did not stop them. The medical examiner was indifferent when he lied in his report about how this young boy child actually died. Then the jury became indifferent when they took only ninety minutes to rule in favor of these murderers. That alone makes them all the epitome of evil! Hitler would be so very very proud of them! If God doesn’t punish this nation for it’s continued indifference to others and the evil that has presisted throughout the decades, He will have to raise all the evil rulers He has brought down and destroyed since the time man walked this planet and committed evil against his fellow man then apologize to them.

its the south cops do what they want always beed that way

You neglected to disclose there were two black defendants on trial.
The mother knew her son had the sickle cell trait. If the boot camp knew the child had sickle cell trait, then he would not have been admitted.
The mother caused the death of her son.

Federal Investigation of Florida Boot Camp Death: They need to investigate the State of Florida for mis-stating facts in their reports for political gain. The state paid out $5 million of taxpayer dollars before the criminal trial. The state reports were bogus. The prosecutors has no chance of winning when the facts were exposed.

look at the video! how could you be sworn in to help protect and serve and treat a kid like that or anyone for that matter. the key word would be restrain not to hurt/or help kill someone, he was 14 years old, with an undiagnosed disease. and look at the way the hands were over the face, or even how he was just put on the stretcher. he was 14 not 40, it had to take all them grown men come on now. and for the nurse, dont get me started im in the healthcare profession i do recall nurses do have an oath i hope you all feel like crap!!!!!! how could you let that go on and not even admit to wrong doing? and how long did this all take place? not even a slap on the hand how sad is the jury? acquittal nothing dont give up and keep pushing the the issue HE WAS ONLY 14!!!!!!

I can’t believe these “law enforcement” officials and nurse got off for what they did to this child. I shutter to think about my daughter several years ago taking a car that was parked in our yard belonging to a relative for a joy ride. She was 14 and went through “hell” because of someone else hitting her and her being blamed for everything since she was underage. Thank God she didn’t have to go to any boot camp for it. Everything else she went through was horrible enough, but I can’t imagine this young man going through that torture for such a minor offense. I hope the parents/relatives pursue this to the max. He was murdered right there in that camp. I believe the trial should have never taken place with such a biased jury/judge. How can this happen in this day/age? I’m happy to know the boot camps are no longer functioning, but that isn’t enough. Punishment is one thing, but all that was not necessary. I’m sorry for their loss. Wake up World! You can bet the “cops” involved will be back because they’ll do this again in some way and it will come back to haunt someone else.

I can’t even begin to imagine that the institution would have the unmittigated temerity to say that there “PROCEDURE” is to beat somebody that they think would be faking an illness, is just unthinkable to me! I served seven years in maximum security prisons in Florida and even their if you say your sick/hurt Faking or not they bring you to the medical facility Period.Every person big or small have rights no matter where they are and this childs rights were definetly violated! In closing I would like say that I hope all the “officers” involed feel like real tough guys knowing that all 6 or 7 of you got to beat up a little kid.And killed him! Because you certainly didn’t save his life! As far as your programs efforts to change the lives of our troubled young americans, CONGRATULATIONS! because you certainly changed this childs life!

On the Good Morning America edition aired 13 October, your Editor avoided an inconvenient truth: the family of the 14 year old was awarded $5,000,000.
This civil judgment should have been reported, along with the failed criminal judgment against the guards and nurse.
Similar situation occurred in OJ Simpson trials, where there was a substatial Civil Award, but the murder (criminal) justice failed.
Why does not your Editor fail to tell a balanced whole picture?

I have a child (he’s in his 20s)who is currently incarcerated. He has yet to face trial, thus he is innocent at the moment. I love him dearly and hate to see anything of significant harm come to him. But, I am a big boy. At best my son knowingly disregarded advice that I, his mother and 1 or 2 of his friends gave him. At worst, he is guilty as charged. We’ll know soon. In the meanwhile, he complains of some of the treatment he is getting at the hands of the guards and other inmates. One or two punches, a poke or prod here and there, that sort of thing. I consistantly remind him that he had all the information he needed to avoid placing himself in his current situation. His choices, decisions and actions resulted in his present location. I remind him that the choices, decisions, actions or statements that he makes now will result in certain consequences. I tell him to make other choices if he doesn’t like the results he is achieving. Now— if he throws feces at a guard and gets his skull cracked, if he spits on a violent inmate twice his size and gets stabbed, if he manages to shred his pants and hang himself with them, I’ll be devastated with grief and loss, but I won’t try to sue anyone. The kid in this story made decisions, choices, statements and took actions that resulted in him being in the “Boot Camp”. According to the story, even the family admitted his desease killed him. Unless the alleged perpetrators could have been proven, without a shadow of doubt, to have taken actions which directly and deliberatly caused the kids death (which did not happen), the family deserves not one dollar. But they got 5 million of them. This money all came out of YOUR pockets. Why don’t you write and thank them for lessening the strain on YOUR wallets!

how about those who murdered the 14 yr old boy /i stress boy/get a tough treatment from 8 boys same age and when they are kicked/punched/smothered/and made to breathe ammonia then will the jury say the boys simply did what they had to?nope they would have them chrgd
my extreme sympathy to the family members on your loss/shame on the judge

Ask the jurors if it were their child would the verdict have been the same. If they couldn’t answer with a yes then they know the verdict was wrong.

paperwork? some people are going to say the most outrageous things to stir you up. in this guys case he said the stupidest.

IF A PARENT DISCIPLINES HIS KID BY SPANKING…IT BECOMES “CHILD ABUSE”..EVEN IF IT IS FOR GOOD REASON.IF A GOVERNMENT PAID CORRECTIONAL OFFICER “MISHANDLES AND TORTURE ” A KID….IT IS A “ROUTINE PROCEDURE.”IF A TERRORIST WHO CAME TO BOMB AND DESTROY OUR COUNTRY GETS A FEW MISTREATMENT….WHOLE AMERICA MARCHES BEHIND HIM…SHOUTING IT IS VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS WHEN A 14 YEAR OLD POOR AMERICAN KID IS CRUSHED BY FELLOW “AMERICANS” …NOBODY HAS TONGUE

The jury took only 90 minutes to come to a verdict. I conclude they had already made up their minds before deliberations began and were biased in their approach to the trial. What were the judges instructions to yhe jury? Couldn’t the judge have vacated the verdict? The “indifference” regarding the value of this troubled young man is frightening. If these jurors are my “peers” then I have a really crappy group of friends. I would urge the family to gather strength and file a civil suit. Never let them forget. All they had to do was take responsibility. It’s called integrity.

Odd, before America entered WWII, I enlisted in the National Guard at age 15, and shortly after that, we were inducted into the US Army, where I spent the next seven years. There were many who entered the service at or about the same age – many did not return. I was not a “child” and and had not been one for some time; why is this “child” (read that, teen age man) any different? Possibly most of you never heard of the CCC Camps in the Depression, provided by President Roosevelt.

When does wrong become right? Regardless of the boys dis-ease he was abused by adults. The nurse on the other hand needs to go to prison today! She is supposed to be a professional, but lacked being honest. Truth can only be hidden and suppressed for so long. Those that took part and had a hand in voluntarily perpetrating the spilling of innocent blood have probably done it many times before.
The justice system in this country will give an account for their wickedness some day. The whole thing is sick and distorted.

Unfort the gaurds can’t be tried again for murder…it falls under the “Double Jeprody Rule” however they can be charged in a wrongful death suit

martin lee anderson had sicle cell anemia which prevented him from being able to withstand the abuse that thousands of kids just like him are forced to endure daily in these boot camps .

My daughter was sent to something like this camp only it was ran for children that are in the care of the state and also cps-probationary children. She recieved rug burns to her face from the take downs. There was nothing done and we were in front of a juvenile judge regular and nothing was said about the obvious burns to her face; She’s home now thru God’s grace. Her comment is how can they teach her non-violence when they themselves are so violent.

this is like emmitt till getting murdered all over again. He died at the age of 15 and the two white men in mississippi who murdered him was also aquited by an all white jury. The two men went on to brag to “look” magazine and bragged to how they did the crime knowing that they couldn’t be retried. shame on you people who agree with the not guilty verdict on this poor young man in Florida. I hope Obama makes president and then all of things that have happened to my people over the years, I will feel better because everybody knows that there will be a lot of angry caucasions out there if that black man makes office. I on the other hand will tell all of you angry caucasions I told you so.