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Another boot camp death in Florida
« on: August 12, 2006, 11:08:32 PM »
How fucking many is it going to take?? :flame:




http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/15261732.htm

Police investigating boot camp cadet's death at state park

Associated Press

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - A 13-year-old cadet from a private military academy died while camping at a state park early Saturday.

The boy, whose name was not released, was rushed from Oleta State Park to the hospital at 3 a.m., where he was pronounced dead, the North Miami police said in a brief statement.

The child was a cadet at the Back to Basics Military Academy in Lauderhill, WSVN-Channel 7 in Miami reported. The school was holding an orientation camping trip at the park, according to televised news reports.

The cause of death was undetermined, pending a medical examiner's report, police said. No additional information about the investigation was released.

Lynda Brown, the academy's principal, told WSVN the cadets were hydrated, fed and well-cared for during the excursion.

"This has been verified with our children," she said. "They said none of them really understand what went on."

Brown did not immediately return phone messages or an e-mail to The Associated Press. The school's recorded message describes it as a juvenile military boot camp.

Messages left for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials were not immediately returned.

In January, a 14-year-old boy died after a confrontation with guards at a Panama City boot camp for juvenile offenders operated by the Bay County Sheriff's Office. Martin Lee Anderson died one day after being roughed up by guards.

His death remains under investigation. The state's government-operated military-style boot camp system was shutdown in May under a bill signed by Gov. Jeb Bush.
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« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2006, 12:04:57 AM »
The boy was one of 33 cadets attending the Back to Basics Christian Military Academy's Training and Leadership Corps campout. The students, in grades 4-10, had been camping since Wednesday, said Lynda Browne, principal and owner of the school.

The boy had been sleeping with the other cadets, when he awoke in the middle of the night to tell a drill sergeant he didn't feel well. The boy collapsed on the way to the restroom, she said.

Browne said the boy's mother told her that her son "wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child."

Browne said the academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp. The camp is run by certified National Guard drill sergeants.

"The children get the very best of care," Browne said. "Under no circumstances are our students brutalized, nor are they maligned verbally. They are treated with the utmost respect."

Brown did not return several phone messages or an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Messages left for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials were not immediately returned.

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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2006, 11:28:51 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/13/camp.d ... index.html
Campers: Boy who died refused food
Sunday, August 13, 2006; Posted: 9:00 p.m. EDT (01:00 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A 13-year-old cadet at a private military academy who died while camping at a state park refused food throughout the excursion, the father of two fellow cadets said Sunday.

Victor Jusino of Sunrise, Florida, said his sons, ages 9 and 10, told him the boy continuously threw away food after the 33 cadets arrived early Wednesday at the Back to Basics Christian Military Academy's Training and Leadership Corps campout.

"They described to me that he wasn't eating. He wasn't feeling well. His stomach was hurting him and the heat was getting to him," Jusino said.

Other cadets gave similar accounts to WFOR-TV in Miami.

"He wasn't eating any food," 12-year-old Joanna Miller said. "He would ask people if they want his food or he would just throw it on the ground. When he was supposed to drink water, he didn't want to."

The academy's principal, Lynda Browne, did not return messages left at the school Sunday. North Miami police have released few details about their investigation into the death at Oleta State Park. An autopsy is pending.

Jusino said his sons told him they were given three meals a day after starting each morning with a long hike. But the boys were dehydrated, sunburned and had insect bites when he picked them up Saturday morning, he said.

"They were very dirty, their clothing was wet. They had been sleeping in wet clothes, and their hair had been cut," Jusino said.

The cadet, whose name has not been released, got out of bed in the middle of the night to tell a drill sergeant he didn't feel well, and collapsed on the way to the bathroom, Browne told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. She said the boy's mother told her that her son "wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child," the paper reported.

The academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp. The camp is run by certified National Guard drill sergeants, Browne told the paper.

In January, a 14-year-old boy died after a confrontation with guards at a Panama City, Florida, boot camp for juvenile offenders operated by the Bay County Sheriff's Office. Martin Lee Anderson died one day after being roughed up by guards.

His death remains under investigation. The state's government-operated military-style boot camp system was shutdown in May.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_225204808.html
Aug 14, 2006 7:58 am US/Eastern
Military School Teen's Death God's Will, Says Mom
Shomari Stone Reporting

(CBS4 News) LAUDERHILL The mother of a 13-year-old cadet at a private military academy who died while camping at Oleta River State Park in North Miami said her son?s death was ?God?s will?, and said she was just happy for the time they had together.

In an exclusive interview CBS4 Reporter Shomari Stone, Dena Cullinane spoke for the first time Sunday night about the death of her son, Alex, while on a camping trip with his military school class last weekend.

?I think it was God?s will. I think it was his time to go,? Cullinane said. ?As painful as that is, I need to find a way to accept that, and to know that this is what was meant to be.?

?I know that through this pain, on the other side, I?ll grow through it.?

Cullinane has requested an autopsy to help determine how her son died, but the 15 year old boy who acted as his squad leader believes he may have been dehydrated.

Brandon Scott told Stone in an exclusive interview that the teen had problems earlier in the day doing running exercises.

?He said he had spinal problems, and that his spine was really hurting him, and his news were hurting him,? Scott said. ?He was just a little bit slower than the rest of them.?

Scott said the boy had refused food earlier, and even though adult drill instructors had urged him to eat and drink more, he believed the boy was not getting enough water.

?Dehydration. Dehydration led to his death, that?s what I think,? said Scott.

The Lauderhill academy's principal, Lynda Browne, has said the cadet got out of bed in the middle of the night to tell a drill sergeant he didn't feel well, and collapsed on the way to the bathroom.

Scott said there was nothing he could do to help the teen. ?I felt like I wish I could have done something more,? he said.

Browne says it is against the rules of the academy to physically or verbally abuse the children. The school leases space from a Lauderhill community church.

As to what killed the teen, Brown told CBS4?s Stone, ?We have absolutely no idea. What we are doing and before we begin to speculate or guess, we know the parent has asked for an autopsy, and so we?re just waiting at this point for the results.?

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... -headlines
Alex Cullinane was to attend Back to Basics Christian Military Academy, said Dena Cullinane of Plantation. He died Saturday while attending the school's four day Training and Leadership Corps campout at Oleta River State Park in North Miami

"He wasn't in top shape, but he wasn't a sick child,'' Dena Cullinane said. "He just wasn't into sports.''

The Lauderhill academy subcontracts with Fort Lauderdale-based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corp. The camp is run by certified National Guard drill sergeants, principal Lynda Browne said.

"It's not a boot camp. We're Christians,'' she said.

Dena Cullinane said she worried about the second-year school's military image, but she felt her son would receive a good education there.

"I trust them, and I'm not into blame,'' she said. "Blame is not gonna bring Alex back.''

Alex collapsed about 3 a.m. Saturday while being escorted to the restroom by a volunteer drill sergeant. He was taken to Parkway Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Jusino said his sons were dehydrated, sunburned and had multiple insect bites when he picked them up Saturday morning at the North Miami police station. The oldest boy told his father one of the drill sergeants had pushed him up against a tree when he failed to obey a command quickly enough.

On Saturday, Browne said the dead teen had been well hydrated and well fed and his mother had told her the boy "wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child."

Browne also said on Saturday that the certified National Guard drill sergeants were not aggressive with the children, who were not "brutalized, nor are they maligned verbally."

Browne said Saturday she contracted with Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corps for the campout. A state records and phone number search did not find any business under that name. State records list Browne as the director of Juvenile Military Boot Camp.

The phone number for Back to Basics reaches an answering machine for the Juvenile Military Boot Camp, though no one immediately returned messages left there. Lynda and Reginald Browne, her husband, have led the military boot camp for about eight years.

Previously, the Brownes led Family Life Institute of Counseling Education and Research, a counseling service for troubled children known as FLICER. The service lost a Broward County grant in August 1995 because of weak financial practices and a $50,000 deficit in 1994 detailed in an audit by the Broward County Commission. The institute is no longer in operation, according to state records.

Browne's Back to Basics Academy rents space at Living Word Community Church in Lauderhill. Pastor Tony Palmisano said the academy isn't affiliated with the church and is temporarily renting a small room where students can be found Monday through Friday. The academy is looking for a permanent space, Palmisano said.

Staff Researcher John Maines contributed to this report, which was supplemented with information from The Associated Press.

Marlene Naanes can be reached at mnaanes@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7922.
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2006, 11:36:48 AM »
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As to what killed the teen, Brown told CBS4?s Stone, ?We have absolutely no idea. What we are doing and before we begin to speculate or guess, we know the parent has asked for an autopsy, and so we?re just waiting at this point for the results.?


This should read:

As to what killed the teen, Brown told CBS4?s Stone, ?We have absolutely no idea what we are doing and before we begin to speculate or guess, we know the parent has asked for an autopsy, and so we?re just waiting at this point for the results.?

See?  Just remove a simple period and you have the answer.  Not that deep...
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2006, 11:36:57 AM »
Holy shit.  I feel like I need to have my soul scrubbed after reading that.  The mom  :roll: God's will?????????  The camp  :roll:  we're not a boot camp, we're christians.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  God this is so fucking disgusting I think I may become physically ill. ::puke::
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2006, 12:00:26 PM »
Yeh, flashbacks of Ian August's mom saying it was his karma to die (due to neglect) at Skyline Journey.
The kid wasn't eating or drinking all day, and no one noticed? The only thing missing in this story to date is the standard response, "We thought he was faking."
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2006, 12:10:33 PM »
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As to what killed the teen, Brown told CBS4?s Stone, ?We have absolutely no idea. What we are doing and before we begin to speculate or guess, we know the parent has asked for an autopsy, and so we?re just waiting at this point for the results.?

This should read:

As to what killed the teen, Brown told CBS4?s Stone, ?We have absolutely no idea what we are doing and before we begin to speculate or guess, we know the parent has asked for an autopsy, and so we?re just waiting at this point for the results.?

See?  Just remove a simple period and you have the answer.  Not that deep...



 :rofl:  :rofl:
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2006, 12:10:55 PM »
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Yeh, flashbacks of Ian August's mom saying it was his karma to die (due to neglect) at Skyline Journey.
The kid wasn't eating or drinking all day, and no one noticed? The only thing missing in this story to date is the standard response, "We thought he was faking."


I was thinking the same thing.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2006, 09:49:24 AM »
Posted on Wed, Aug. 16, 2006
CAMPER'S DEATH
Unlicensed academy closes doors after student death
The principal of a Lauderhill Christian military academy wouldn't discuss the future of her school after city officials found it lacked an occupational license.
By AMY SHERMAN AND TODD WRIGHT
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15282446.htm

Academy Where Boy Died Is Illegal, City Says
From Times wire reports
August 16, 2006




A military academy under scrutiny after one of its students died during a camping trip in north Miami-Dade county Saturday has been operating illegally out of a church, city officials in Lauderhill, Fla., said ? even as it accepted $86,760 in state money to educate disabled students, state education department records show.

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Ninth-grader Alex Cullinane, 13, would have started his first day of class at Back to Basics Christian Military Academy on Monday, but during a leadership camping trip Saturday, he woke up a drill sergeant at 3 a.m., complained he did not feel well, and collapsed on the way to the bathroom, his mother, Dena Cullinane, said the school told her.

An autopsy by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office found no signs of injury on Alex's body. The medical examiner is waiting for toxicology results to determine a cause of death.

Back to Basics Christian Military Academy does not have an occupational license or a special-exception use permit to run a school out of Living Word Fellowship Church. City officials Tuesday issued a cease and desist order to the school.
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2006, 10:18:22 AM »
"In 1991, the state ordered Reginald Browne -- now an academy director and husband of principal Lynda Browne -- to stop referring to himself as a psychologist since he wasn't licensed in Florida."

How nice. Self-proclaimed "psychologists" who have no qualifications in psychology, people providing "treatment" who don't even understand the meaning of the word, and "educational consultants" with no qualifications in either education or psychology.

What a model segment of the health-care industry this is!
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2006, 07:09:34 PM »
Academy operators inspire loyalty despite problems with licenses, money
By Jamie Malernee and Akilah Johnson
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted August 20 2006
 
She's an "angel" and a "mother" to her school children. He is a "gentleman" and an "icon" in his community.

Together, the Plantation husband and wife have spent their careers helping troubled students while preaching the word of God, parents and colleagues say.
 
Yet Lynda and Reginald Browne -- leaders of a tiny Christian military academy under scrutiny after one of their students died at a school camping trip a little over a week ago -- have had financial and licensing problems and are now playing hide and seek with county and state officials, who are demanding to know where they have reopened the school.

Lynda Browne, 56, principal of Back To Basics Military Academy, was kicked out of a church location in Lauderhill on Tuesday for not having permits to run the private school. She's moved classes to a "secret" location, parents say.

Before Lynda Browne formed Back to Basics in 2005 with her husband Reginald Browne, the couple started a nonprofit counseling group. Reginald Browne, now 58, was fired from the group in 1995 after audits found it misused money. Before that, the state ordered him to stop calling himself a psychologist because he wasn't licensed.

Today, he is a minister who holds religious gatherings at his home, does marital counseling and hosts a Christian radio show, according to a pastor and a parent.

Many of those who know the Brownes remain absolute in their loyalty to the couple, saying the death of a 13-year-old boy in their camp has unfairly cast suspicion. The boy, Alex Cullinane, collapsed during a school-related camping trip at Oleta River State Park in north Miami-Dade County. An autopsy showed no trauma. Officials are still waiting on toxicology results.

"Their character should not be questioned, not when they are trying to do what's right," said Pastor Dennis Jackson Sr. of the United Christian Praise and Worship Center Church in Miami, who has known the Brownes and their work with at-risk children for 20 years.

`Not just blind faith'

The Brownes could not be reached for comment despite many attempts over the past week by phone, visits to their home and letters sent seeking an interview.

Academy parents Lynne Miller, Wendy Stott and Rebecca Chaparro insist the Brownes say the Lauderhill code violations are a misunderstanding. The couple thought their landlord's permit to run a daycare at Living Word Fellowship Church applied to their academy for grades 4-12.

"The school is working very closely with the city of Lauderhill to get the correct permits," said Miller, an associate professor of education at Florida International University.

Not if you ask Lauderhill.

"We do not know where the Brownes are. We have had no contact with the Brownes," city spokeswoman Leslie Tropepe said on Friday.

The city sent the academy a cease and desist letter Tuesday at the church, which is not affiliated with the school but rented it space at 5770 W. Oakland Park Blvd. since August 2005. Code enforcement went to the church Friday and confirmed the school moved out.

Last year, the school accepted $86,760 in state scholarship money to educate 14 disabled students enrolled in the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program. This year, 24 of the school's 32 students are enrolled in the program.

The Department of Education says Lynda Browne has 15 days from the day of her move to disclose the academy's new location, and 60 days to provide proof she meets local safety and building codes. If she doesn't, the department may withhold state funding.

The Broward County Heath Department has joined the hunt for the school's new location. Agency environmental director Howard Rosen said Friday it must be inspected.

Parents will not disclose the military academy's new site, which they say is large enough to house 32 students, teachers and drill sergeants. Miller and Stott said the students spent the week doing indoor exercise, getting grief counseling because of the death and taking academic assessment tests.

"When you finally find a program where your child flourishes and has a future, you're not going to give that up," said Stott, who has two teens at the school. She said the Brownes turned around her unruly 15-year-old son and supported him during a cancer scare.

"They are just angels sent from God," Stott said. "In all honesty, we thought he'd never finish high school. We couldn't get him to go. Now he's eager to go. We are not just parents who have blind faith."

Victor Jusino has little faith in the school. The Sunrise father said his ex-wife sent his 9-year-old son there against his wishes, using state money. Jusino said he talked to his son on the phone and the boy said that since the school moved they have been playing and watching movies all day.
 
"Why are they hiding? I don't get that part," Jusino said. "My concern is the learning. If they can't teach, bring them to somewhere where they can be taught. I'm worried. I'm angry."

Child advocates

The Brownes became well known in the child welfare and counseling community when they formed the Family Life Institute of Counseling Education and Research -- better known as FLICER -- in 1986. The group provided mental health services and AIDS education when few stepped up to help, said Keith Clayborne, a longtime friend and publisher of the Broward Times.

"AIDS was a taboo word in the black community, and the Brownes said, `There are people out here sick. We need to do something,'" he said.

But soon troubles began.

In 1991, the state Department of Professional Regulation sent Reginald Browne a cease and desist letter after finding he was representing himself as a psychologist. He has no such license in Florida.

In 1995, Reginald Browne was fired from his position of executive director of FLICER after an audit by the state Department of Juvenile Justice showed the nonprofit used more than $50,000 intended for construction to pay salaries. The state ordered the nonprofit to pay the money back. After Browne's departure, the group began to pay it back.

The group lost a county grant after an audit found Reginald Browne was running his own private counseling business without paying rent out of the same office as the county and state-funded nonprofit. The audit also found Lynda Browne was paid commissions for finding donations.

"When you're a small business person, hell, you can't afford to go from this building to that building. You do the best you can," Clayborne said. "It's going to paint a picture that something is shady about this guy, and he's not a bad guy."

In 1998, the Brownes formed a new nonprofit, R.L. Browne Ministries, and another, New Wineskin Christian Fellowship, in 2001. The fellowship is not associated with the New Wineskins Association of Churches, a group of churches seeking reform in the Presbyterian Church, said New Wineskin Initiative spokeswoman Brenda Edwards.

State records list the address of both of the Browne nonprofits as their home.

Jackson, the Miami pastor, said he ordained Reginald Browne as a minister at about that time, five years ago. Jackson said the Brownes counsel people and hold fellowship services out of their home. The couple also broadcasts a radio program called Back to Eden on a Miami gospel station, 1490 AM WMBM.

In 2004, Lynda Browne worked as an administrator at Elite Leadership Military Academy in Fort Lauderdale. Kurt Sullivan, then a drill instructor at Elite, was impressed by her caring ways. "If a kid didn't have clothing, she would go on her own private time and buy them shoes if they needed it. If they were hungry, she would buy them food," Sullivan recalled.

Miller and Stott, who had their children enrolled at Elite, befriended the Brownes.

`Counting on us'

Lynda Browne started her own school in 2005, and the mothers followed. While the school day starts with formations and ends with drills, they say the real focus is on teaching honesty and respect.

The two parents say there were no problems until Alex Cullinane's death on Aug 12. The boy's mother said the school told her that her son woke up a drill sergeant at 3 a.m., said he did not feel well, and then collapsed. She said Monday she does not blame the school.

After Alex's death, Lynda Browne said she had subcontracted with Fort-Lauderdale based Juvenile Military Training and Leadership Corps to conduct the camping trip. She said the National Guard trained the group's drill instructors.

State records show no such group exists. The Florida National Guard said it does not certify or train drill instructors.

A different group by a similar name, Juvenile Military Boot Camp, exists. Records show the Brownes list their home address as the company's address. Police records also show the Brownes' group was in charge.

Many people still hope the Brownes will be allowed to reopen their school in Lauderhill. Clayborne said the couple recently visited his office, crying and devastated -- but determined.

"I didn't know how to console them," Clayborne said. "I said, `Are you all going to continue to do this?' and they said `Yes. We have to. We have parents who are counting on us. We have students who are counting on us.'"

Staff Writer Marlene Naanes and Researchers Barbara Hijek and William Lucey contributed to this report.

Jamie Malernee can be reached at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... -headlines
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