Boot camp death payment approved
From Times Wire Reports
The family of a teenager who died after being roughed up by guards at a juvenile boot camp last year will receive $5 million under a bill signed in Tallahassee by Gov. Charlie Crist.
Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died in January 2006 shortly after being kneed and struck and having ammonia tablets held to his nose at the military-style facility run by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Panama City. Seven guards and a nurse at the camp face manslaughter charges.
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