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Payout over teen's boot camp tragedy

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The parents of a teenager beaten to death by staff at a boot camp in Hubei province this month have been awarded 350,000 yuan ($51,000) in compensation.

The money will be paid by a local education bureau. It comes less than three weeks after Yao Jian, 14, died on an outward-bound training program intended to boost his confidence.

"The money will not ease the agony of losing our son," his father Yao Jun, 37, told China Daily yesterday. "We can only hope this tragedy will ring alarm for parents and the government to avoid such incidents."

He said a local police report last Friday showed the Xiaoxita No 1 Middle School student had died on August 5 of acute renal failure caused by extensive soft-tissue injuries.

Yao Jian joined the six-day program, which cost 740 yuan, with more than 50 other youngsters on August 2. They were all ordered to walk more than 70 km from Wujiagang to a Dangyang training base in two days.

The police officer leading the investigation, surnamed Tian, said camp trainers had "punished" youths who walked too slow. In the end, Yao had to be transported to Dangyang on August 4 by car due to extreme exhaustion.

He said the trainers believed Yao was pretending to fall unconscious so beat him on August 4 and 5 before sending him to hospital. The teenager died on the way to hospital.

"We heard our son was sick at about 7:30 pm but, when we arrived in Dangyang, we could only see his dead body, which was covered with injuries to his arms and legs," said his father.

The Tianhai boot camp was shut down last Friday.

A private school, it was set up in 2007 with permission from the local commercial and industry bureau to help troubled youngsters overcome Internet addictions and other problems.

The Hubei incident came just days after the beating to death of Deng Senshan, 15, of Nanning in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Deng was also at a Net addiction camp.

(英语点津 许雅宁编辑)

Payout over teen's boot camp tragedy

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Payout over teen's boot camp tragedy

Nancy Matos is a foreign expert at China Daily Website. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Nancy is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism and Media program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Her journalism career in broadcast and print has taken her around the world from New York to Portugal and now Beijing. Nancy is happy to make the move

 
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