Boot Camp Enrolls New Class
A group that ran a “tough love” boot camp where a 14-year-old died this summer has a new class registered for a program designed to teach discipline and respect to troubled youngsters.
Authorities and some parents have questioned whether the America’s Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Assn. should take in more children when it remains under investigation in the July 1 death of boot camp participant Anthony Haynes.
But camp director Charles Long said he does not have to justify his decision to keep operating. Twenty-five children arrived Saturday for the start of the 13-week program, which is separate from the group’s tougher desert boot camps.
“My business does not exist if parents don’t find some value. I think it kind of washes itself out,” he said.
Those who arrived for the camp Saturday wore black sweatsuits, baseball caps and bandanas tied around their necks.
No criminal charges have been filed in Anthony’s death, and the autopsy report by the county medical examiner declared the death accidental.
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