TV Brat Camper crashes boat into family
By Casey Ross
Friday, August 5, 2005 - Updated: 08:28 AM EST
Brat Camp? ABC might want to try prison camp for Boston's latest reality TV superjerk.
Jada Chabot, 15, who is one of nine misfits on the new ``Brat Camp'' show, is facing multiple police charges, including negligent operation, after she and her boyfriend slammed a speedboat into a Foxboro family on Wrentham Pond.
``I thought we were all gonna die,'' Agenor Moraes said, recalling the moment Wednesday evening when he saw Chabot's boat speeding toward his family, who were in an inflatable boat. ``I thought I was going to see a body on the water with blood.''
Instead, the collision with the Boston brat left two of Moraes' children with injuries and his 8-month-old boy kicking and screaming in the water. Moraes' 16-year-old daughter, Grafieli, is still recovering in the hospital with three broken ribs.
Chabot's parents decided to put her on ``Brat Camp,'' which seeks to reform troubled teens by tossing them into a rigorous wilderness program, because she had become impossible to discipline. The show features the struggles of Chabot and the other brats as they battle with the Oregon outdoors and with their own dysfunctional personalities.
Wednesday's crash, which occurred while Chabot was pulling her boyfriend on a knee board, was just the latest screw-up in Chabot's distinguished career of delinquency.
The TV show's Web site describes her as a ``compulsive liar who is always making excuses.''
``Jada refuses to go to school,'' the Web site says. ``She has dropped out of two boarding schools and nine private schools in the last six years. Instead of going to school, she throws parties and experiments with sex, drugs and alcohol.''
Moraes said he was more focused on healing his own family last night than pulling for the remarkable comeback ABC might have been plotting for Chabot.
``I'm just thinking about my daughter,'' he said. ``We're going to go visit her now in the hospital. It's very bad.''
``We were just trying to fish when we saw the boat coming at us,'' he added. ``She was looking at the guy she was pulling around. He yelled at her to watch, but she just kept looking at him.