Kefka
10-12-2007, 04:52 PM
PANAMA CITY, Florida (AP) -- Seven former boot camp guards and a nurse were acquitted Friday of manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was hit and kicked by the drill instructors in a videotaped altercation.
The video of a limp Martin Lee Anderson being hit and kicked by the guards after he collapsed while exercising drew protests in the state capital and spelled the end of Florida's system of boot camps for juvenile offenders.
Anderson died at a hospital the day after the altercation.
The defendants, however, said they followed the rules at a get-tough facility where young offenders often feigned illness to avoid exercise.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/12/bootcamp.death.ap/index.html
Video: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/12/bootcamp.death.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
The video of a limp Martin Lee Anderson being hit and kicked by the guards after he collapsed while exercising drew protests in the state capital and spelled the end of Florida's system of boot camps for juvenile offenders.
Anderson died at a hospital the day after the altercation.
The defendants, however, said they followed the rules at a get-tough facility where young offenders often feigned illness to avoid exercise.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/12/bootcamp.death.ap/index.html
Video: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/12/bootcamp.death.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo