Summer Camp Sexual Abuse of Kids Is an Ongoing Problem
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2021
- Millions of kids head off to sleepaway camp each year, but how safe are they? At Camp La Junta in Texas, an elite boys camp that has been around for over 90 years, a boy said he was touched inappropriately by a 20-year-old counselor in 2009. Crime Stoppers of Houston says they found over 1,000 victims of sexual assault at other camps across the U.S. over the last 10 to 15 years. An Inside Edition investigation uncovered a slew of counselors who were found guilty of sexual misconduct at camps across the U.S.
I've never understood why parents were okay with their kids going across the country to stay with hundreds of adults they don't know for three months.
yeah fr 😔
They’re gonna edit it in like 3 mins 🤣
@@chynabarbieeeeee Alyssa replied "I don't care". She might change it
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@@chynabarbieeeeee 🦎
Right? You think of all the adults around kids without their parents, there's a good chance one of them will be a creep, in either this way or another. Just take em to the water park and cinemas over summer and they'll have just as much fun and you can make sure this won't happen.
Parents: don't talk to strangers
Also parents: you stay indoors too much, go to summer camp with unknown people
Ikr.
Hey am from the caribbean also! That flag is Dominica
Or when we get on Ubers or taxis 🚕
Lmao but to be honest we should live in a society where talking to strangers is safe
@@organizedchaos4559 open your eyes and face reality there is no safe space for you to run too listen to your parents when they tell you don"t talk to strangers.
I would never send my kids away to one of these summer camps if I'm honest
Same
Hmm same
I mean most parents wouldn’t. Only few would
@@chynabarbieeeeee 🦎
Its really sad that things like these happen. I would never ever trust anyone else with my kids. If I will ever have kids
Parents should think of this before letting their kids go to summer camps.
Fr
Facts
@@chynabarbieeeeee and before her coward ass changes her comment, she put "Ty not subbing"
Thanks for stating the obvious columbo
The thing is. This could easily happen in school
Being a parent is a year round job, what kind of parents sends their kids away for 3 months? We called summer camp a couple days at grandma's house, the ONLY person you can trust 24/7....maybe.
The same parents that send their children to school 8 hours a day . trusting adults with their children. Not knowing if this is happening with their child even if they see them everyday
yeah but you still have to be careful with grandmas house too cuz some people's relatives will still touch kids or they'll have a family friend who will abuse the children
What kind of parents abandoned children on the side of the road!
@@YeahitsMeSylvia YUP :/
fr
You can see how he's trying to reassure himself by hugging himself. He's obviously traumatised, they desurve better justice then prison it's disgusting.
Firing squad
@@captainhoopla7773 Waste of good bullets.
@@swancman no such thing
EXACTLY I noticed that body language right away. It’s HEARTBREAKING 💔
yeah
It’s horrible that these children were taken advantage of like this. If you’re going to send kids to camp, the safest thing to do is send them to day camp. That way your kid won’t be showering or sleeping in a cabin with adult strangers.
but they can do a quickie in a day lol
One of the kids had a child with the abuser
@Acholo Freeman I’d rather have my kid on fort nite so they can get a thicker skin. Losing builds character
Inside edition diff targeting summer camps now- In the last two days 6 videos about summer camps? WTF
@@0BV10USLYALEXX
Well...it's summertime.
Vacation time. That's why.
This is sad, imagine being in the same position as the kids went through I can't stand people who sexually assault children
I wish they could just disappear
Yo I been abused one time when I was 3 my mother didn't want me because of a pedophile and she got married to the pedophile and I blame my self I been abused and I had to one of the parts of the body because of him and my grandma found out that he was a pedophile and called the police officer and that's all I can say wh
It’s more sick when parents do it to their OWN children 🤦🏻♀️
Kids can't even enjoy a day in summer camp. Honestly it'd be better to send your kids to a local children's summer activity center instead of leaving them miles away with potential predators.
Facts
yea
yea
I’m still gonna go to camp lol
That’s not even safe. I sent my daughter to a summer rec activity and she begged me to not bring her there again in tears…. The recreation is 2 mins away from me
This is just...I can't even explain it...This is just so disgusting, the world is just completely destroyed by so many people like this and other people...there's always a reason for these stuff
and the fact that some people think doing this to boys is okay and not big deal because “real men can deal with it”
@@dubiousproductions4815 in reality that's not true, like jeez
ikr
Yep ‼️god and universe saying just be good and if will pay off 📴 Trust.. 👍 higher power will handle this
@@fatonyalmitchell3281 Children were horrifically raped and this is all you have to say… Incredible.
Absolutely disgusting! I have no words for how disgusted i am. Kids safety should be top priority at these kind of places. We need justice!
@Rik Mehta You don't have a wife. You're a weird person sitting behind their computer. I think you should get help
@@zulzo fr
Next on Inside Edition: When innocent camp counselors were harassed by ногny young boys
Did his parents get the kid immediately after receiving that letter or did they ignore him?
I really wanna know
Im surprised they even got the letter knowing that some of the camp staff have gone through the letters and dont send them
I hope they did, I would have to pick my kid up as soon as I got that letter. I don’t care how late it is. And whoever that counselor is would be beaten to a pulp
I wanna fight his parents. 3 months 🥺🤦🏽♀️
I wouldn’t be shocked if they didn’t do anything…
As a child who was sexually assaulted at the age of 7/8 I am disgusted. I never told anyone until I was 10, I am currently 12. Sadly the man that did it was still technically a “minor”. This just disgusts me. This is why we need safer places for children and people in general. 😔
I know how you feel
Never put your age in chat! You should probably edit that out or delete this comment.
@@ln14517 I don't think anyone would know who she was because it's youtube but still
@@ln14517 well I mean they have 2009 in their name so… lol
It’s even sad that even older minors would do that younger minors. I hope you find healing through counseling ❤️
I worked in a summer camp that did not tolerate any sexual abuse. I am glad that the camp I worked in did background checks.
More camps need to do this tbh. Actually anywhere that is in close proximity to young kids. I don't know why the camp even protected the counselors even after being told
@@ouranhshc100, it’s sad how other camps protect people who sexually assault children. I agree with you!
As a camp counselor myself, this breaks my heart. We want parents to trust us to be with their kids, not to think of us badly.
First reply!
@@FLCollection620 You littearly acting like this is a cool comment but this is serious, do you not just say 'First reply!' if someone commented about he/she was abused you'd probably not say that, unless you're a physco.
@@FLCollection620 “Raises tail angerly.”
@@awesomeashton Literally*
@ Fluorescent Light Collection
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I've never understood the mindset of sending your kids to a remote place with random strangers
Yeah, what happened to hanging out around with your neighbours? Come to think of it: I always hear of anything related to summer camps stories and it's always from America - don't Americans enjoy spending the summer with the closest folks they know around their homes or something?
The modern society is really weird and disgusting, please stay safe guys
It always has been, tbh.
When was society free of perverts and crime?
gosh - those mugshots show some real winners
The modern society is good and uplifting
@@iphone5s548 Exactly, now we can catch predators much easier in modern day.
This is why I begged my mother to not leave me in summer camp
If anything happened.. don’t be afraid to speak up love
Tell your parents to do summer family camp, like whats the wrong in that?? We Asians invite family members and friends as camping trips and it's much more fun. No need to go to some strangers camps they can do a lot of stupid stuffs like this video.
@Cunio Yea it happened to me! The worst part is I was a special needs kid and the dude took advantage of that.
moral of the story: DONT SEND YOUR KIDS TO CAMP. (note: i’ve been on one and man was it horrible) (edit: omg thanks for 405 likes)
I went to one it was pretty fun, guess I got lucky though.
I've never even been to one.
People can't even trust friends or even relatives
I went to one it was horrible
Every time I do a reply or comment, someone else will comment.
No solo counselors! Always two adults per group!!! Drs can’t be alone with a child, why would we let strangers alone with our children?
It’s predominantly white families that attend summer camps like those
Fr, who tf let these counselors be ALONE with the children?? Worked in a daycare-like position was stressed that we were never to be alone with a kid. We’d get in trouble if seen
Two adults so they can double team the child
Inside edition diff targeting summer camps now- In the last two days 6 videos about summer camps? WTF
Stop child abuse. It’s for the kids we have to stop this crises we got to do something for these poor kids.
@Rik Mehta nice
@Rik Mehta then I hope you do something
Every Pedo should get the electric chair. Pedo's don't deserve to live.
@@Fitzpatrick65 that gives them the easy way out.
@@shisexee no it will stop them from doing it to someone else.
Bruh, we can never have a good world.
Hell on earth pretty much
After Mr. Rogers died (2003) we were all doomed...
There will never be peace as long as humans exist.
I wish this world was peaceful
@@Ascendedninja6that's to Tru i agree with you
Keep y’all’s children safe
@Cunio w t f
@@smileez2556 u r m o m
@Cunio 😅
@Cunio and hide yo husband
Hide yo dog... hide yo pet hamster... hide yo mailman... hide yo neighbors...
“P.S. please do something.”
imagine how he felt at that time.
Poor young boy. I hope he’s doing great. Things like this should never happen to anyone.
This is why I don’t go to sleep away camps I just can’t, and after this I can’t . Day camp would be so much better I feel so bad for these LITTLE CHILDREN.. what the hell dirty dirty people !
Put these boys in general population and all the parents will get their revenge
@@salahmed1890 for sure
If you a reasonable age you should be able to handle yourself but not the children
@@captainhoopla7773 Tf is a reasonable age to not be sexually abused by an adult in an authority like position as a minor?? Grown adults still get assaulted so I'm curious as to what a reasonable age is
@@MP-rf8vg I am 13 and feel not safe !
When i was a counselor, they had measures in place to where we couldn't be alone with any of the kids, every kid had to have a buddy with them
My parents never let me go to summer camp and when I hear stories like this, I’m honestly so grateful they didn’t let me go
I went to summer camp and was fine.
You missed a lot of adventure and fun times!
Go with friends, look out for each other!
@@lisafoos8976 So do most kids. Going to church is riskier lol
@@loner1878 lol I get what u mean
Same, my dad grew up on the poorest ranch, he said he hated camping. Instead he had his pedofelo brother live with us until my mother kicked his ass out. He was then living with my cousin & I told her husband & her what he did.
I'm lucky that I have overprotective parents. I feel bad for the victims.
Right? In these situations I’m glad my mom was overprotective.
I wouldn't even say my parents were over protective.... They just used their brains.
For once I’m glad my over protective mom never let me go to summer camp even though I begged to go
Too many freaks out there these days to be sending your kids away to camps. I would rather be too protective than have this kind of thing happen to one of them.
At my school, one of the band camp counselors "dated" multiple girls. One killed herself at school. So horribly sad.
Over 90 years!?
Imagine all the abuse that’s been going on throughout those “90 years”!
I like ya profile pic
My mom never sent me to camp because she new kids would get abuse there and never wanted to risk it
Same here. The most my mom did was send me to a day camp at our church back when I was in Maryland and it was close to our house (even though her work was a distance away).
Same with me. She also didn't let me go to sleepovers. Most of my friends mom's also didn't let them go to camps/sleepovers.
@@r.r.r9300 That too! And I hated that she didn’t let me go at young ages but now I know why.
@@Ash_Queen16 i loved day camp at church, we would eat pizza and ice cream and would play miniature golf and other games ,it was fun
@@Jess1234 I would play board games and do outdoor activities like racing and we went on field trips. It was a lot if fun!!
Why would anyone send with there kids strangers that doesn’t make sense.
Ikrr thats what I'm saying!
Their*
That part 🥺
Maybe they don't have common sense?
Please just keep your babies at home, go camping with them yourselves don't send them away.. This is such a traumatic experience for them, that letter was so heart wrenching.
**gets friday the 13th flashbacks**
this is why when I have a family I'm never taking my kids to a summer camp. instead i'm taking them camping with the family!
Such a great idea
I've never sent my kids to camp, but I have to admit my best childhood memory were at a summer camp. I don't regret not doing it, but it's a shame we can't do it because there's asholes out there.
They all look like they’re all smiling in their mugshot
Yeah because these scums aren't sorry for what they did, they're only sorry for getting caught
An inmate is goin to be so angry wen they hav to be their cellmate
Seriously what the hell has this world come to
Unfortunately child abuse has always existed. The Boy Scouts hid decades of child abuse. They had lawsuits and hid it from the public. So many other places have covered child abuse too.
Simple don’t let your kid go to camp
This is why my parents never took me to camp when I was younger!
Rick Mehta Idgaf if you’re trolling or not this is an automatic channel report
@@STEEZY_TREV16 Bro he’s trolling. Chill out lol
lol
your parents probably had trust issues lol
@@STEEZY_TREV16 that's all channels
Just disgusting. America is scary and weird.
that how life is 1000 kid /10 -15 years its like 80 kid per year while in USA suicide & homicide is like 60k i guess
Now I dont understand why parents send there kids miles away. Get a good summer camp in town that's basically for the whole day and they come back home in the evening. It's like school.
Plus it's cheaper. Like 20$ and hours. It's like babysitting but with a better establishment and good locals.
All these kids did was go and expect to have a good time… this is sickening. I was never sent to summer camp as a kid and I’m glad I didn’t.
As camp counselor for 7 years this makes so mad 😡 because of disgusting people like that, now my image and my job is affected.
Idk why the parents would let their kids go first of all.
I would NEVER !
Poor kids.
This is heartbreaking. I used to go to a summer camp only an hour away from me. It was more of a special camp. I'm a type 1 diabetic, and the camp was specific for that. I'd never heard of any problems and everything seemed fine. So when I hear things like abuse happening at other camps it really hurts. (Also, camp only lasted a week)
Simply disgusting and some parents can’t wait to send their children places they haven’t even investigated!!! 😡😡😡
Wow you’d think summer camp would be fun but oh my god you wouldn’t think something this disgusting to happen to someone’s kid,AT EUMMER CAMP! it’s just crazy to me that something that seems so safe can be so dangerous.
Parents pay a lot of money for their kids to end up traumatized for life
My nine year old brother loves Disney's Bunk'd, and he wanted to go to summer camp. That was two weeks ago, I am taking my job as sibling-mother much more seriously now, since I actually considered letting him go.
It’s a shame that kids can’t do fun activities because of adults.
Picture of the man top left went by the name of “Papa bear” at camp Walden west. I slept in his cabin when my elementary class went to science camp. Didn’t have any run ins with him but still grosses me out every time I think about it.
I went to summer camp for the first time in high school and it was for choir. As far as I know, there hasn't been any issue with inappropriate touching. All we did was sing for hours on end into the mountains (literally).
I only did summer day camps not over night camps
I knew about this when I was 10 year's old. I never was left alone with an adult.
As a camp director this is extremely disgusting.
I mean what do you do for safety ?? How much do you pay your workers ?
@@jesuslover5968 not to mention almost all of us have proper first aid training
Just so you know, this is not common. I've been going to an away summer camp for years and I've never experienced something like that.
Sending ur kids to a camp far away and isolated with adults I wouldn’t.
The only camp mom let us go to were the ones where you go for the day & come back home, & then repeat until it was over. She was very strict about that.
Same here. I went to a day camp at church and that’s as far as my mom would go when it came to camping.
LoveRM now I know why
I never understand why summer camp was even a thing, it's insanely dangerous given the situation around the world.
thats why ,, young people had to face life
its not, i work at a camp and the only problem i usually see is mis-communication between counselors and kids. Send your kids to a trusted and well-trained camp. Don’t be a dumbass and send people to a camp that doesn’t have background checks
@@adangamez3608 cool but nothing is certain with camps. I'd rather not take risk
@@Techie1224 what you even tryna say bruh
It should be outlawed
Love your videos!! Stay safe out there everyone
I just got back from working at one of the best summer camps I’ve ever been to. I went there as a kid for one week ten years ago and had the best time, and it’s finally closing down due to financial reasons. At the beginning, everyone was in tears during our staff training because we went over real cases of camp counselors abusing children, how to watch out for it, and report it if a fellow counselor might be doing it or getting ready to abuse a child or anyone for that matter. As a camp counselor, and a victim of abuse, this disgusts me to my core that 1. People would do this to anyone, child or not.. and 2. That people like this ruin the name of camp counselors everywhere.
We made jokes all summer like “is this la junta?” When we had something that looked remotely nice, because it was the “fancy camp” and we didn’t have the money to stay open. And now I’m just disgusted that we held our neighbors so high on a pedestal.
I went to church camp several year's as child and lock in's at various Christian college campuses and we NEVER had any inappropriate adults around us! Our camp was only a week long and the lock in's were a one night thing....we also did one night lock in's at church.
That you know of.
@@strangeroamer3219 people were just different then....everyone trusted everyone and it was unheard of within our church family. It was a very very small town and a close knit church. All of the ladies that took care of us we could trust and there wasn't a whole lot of men around us except preachers and deacons. Society is deteriorating with sickness because of the internet. This was a whole different world is the 80' and 90's people were very protective of other people's children.
Same. I went to a day camp at chruch and nothing to my knowledge happened inappropriately. The only difference was that this occurred when I was 10 back in the mid 00’s. Even though these things were happening, thankfully not at our camp.
Sounds like you got lucky
@@jesuslover5968 what do you mean
he only got 9 years in prison!?! wth put him in for 40 years
no give him one more chance
In Egypt abusing a child sentence to life in prison..if rape occurred its death penalty
I can’t understand. After months of your child being in school. Why would you send away your child for another three months?
Yep, my kid is never going to summer camps ever.
Never leave your kids with strangers.
What do you do at school?
@@nfwarrior3000 you know what i mean.
My parents never let me stay over someone’s house without knowing their social security, they would never let me stay at summer camp for more then 3 months, this is so sad
I started tearing up for that 11 year old boy…
Cheese and Rice, he and all of those kids have got their Entire life ahead of them..
I don’t care if I went to jail. Every last of those guys will meet my wrath of vengeance…
I still wonder why the government has not implemented a complete background check for people that want to work at camps and other places that a person deals with children directly.
Why, just why would you send your kids to a camp is literally beyond me
To concentrate
My son doesn't go to camp because I don't want to go on a murder spree.
Sleepaway camp is just like school, just farther. Parents need to do drivebys, wellness calls, get to know staff and do surprise visits. Also set up a camera that even kids aren't aware of. Been working with kids (0- 21) for years and I clean on the side: I always act as if being recorded because that's really how I behave all the time, I give people my fingerprint clearance (which I keep updated) and I'm never 'caught' because I 'm doing my job and not doing anything I shouldn't be doing on work time. I take trust very seriously, especially when it comes to people's homes, pets and kids. Also, as a mandated reporter (and just because it's the right thing to do), if you go to supervision and they do nothing, then go higher.
I understand why my mom refused to let me go to summer camp. THANK YOU MOM
*_I would NEVER send my kids to camp!! Glad my parents NEVER sent us to camp.. Or my friends parents NEVER sent their kids (my friends) to camp either!! Thank goodness._* 🙏🏻
*_Because you can’t trust anyone nowadays!! Too many predators in authority walking around.._*
Why death penalty doesn't consider those predators, disgusting. Feed them on our taxes after in prison.
I went to Kanakuk for years, always a positive experience, I’m sorry that this happened to so many people and wish they could have had as an amazing experience as I did
How do we teach our children how to recognize the signs of when an adult is grooming them?
for those pigs who were in mug shots, my opinion is: prison nope, life-ending torture yes. That's why I only trust very few people
Scary I would never let my child go anywhere unless I was volunteering
Why parents would send their kids to be with strangers is beyond comprehension. School is one thing, but to board kids with strange adults is risking this nightmare.
One of the things i dont understand about american culture is sending kids to summercamp
What’s not to understand parents have to work.. in 2021 both parents have to work so they have to drop their kids off somewhere
I've always wanted to go away for summer camp. I'm glad I was terrified of wanting to come home early and my parents couldn't afford it 💀
Breaks my heart
thank you and if INSIDE EDITION would please provide where we can report inappropriate behaviour at camps. is there a national call center or american camp association????
There's no caning here like Singapore. America puts little fear into it's criminals
Caning?
@@nerdgeekcosplay909 beating up with cane
Because we have been taken over by marxists. They give all sorts of excuses to let criminals go. And the rich who support it hire personal security while trying to defund our police. They knew that the lunatics would eventually try to hunt them down.
Me: “mom can we have Jim from the office”
Mom: “we already have him at home”
*jim at home* 3:00
The saddest part these kids will not forget this trauma and parents feel guilty for not able to stop.
That’s just horrible, I go to a church camp and I’m very blessed that my staff have never done this and probably will never happen because everyone is very educated and I’m sending all my prays and blessings to them
Thank god i never been to an summer camp
I feel very sorry for the victims :(
There’s a common denominator here 🧐
Simple question: parents do you keep your valuable jewelry with strangers? I don't think so, then how come you trust them with your kids!!!!
Sick!!! If I had kids I would never trust them with strangers. Very close family only. These poor kids will suffer trauma for life. Absolutely heartbreaking
2:49 yeah I’m sure that’s not the only thing…
Life in jail for these people smh
I hope everyone pursues with their dreams, don’t give up 🌟.
That just sad to see 😢
It takes a really sick mind to think messing with children is ok. Just makes you want to hurt or kill someone who would do a thing like that.
News: “behold the wall of shame “
Soon the camp counselor will be Robots 🤖
If our politicians ever wake the hell up
Wow disgusting. To think parents dismiss this could ever be possible.
Typical suspect!!!!! STOP GIVING YOUR KIDS TO THESE CRIMINALS. Keep your kids at home.