Boot camp guards describe disciplining of teen

Source: Miami Herald

Boot camp guards describe disciplining of teen
Three guards and a nurse testified in their own defense about the hours before one of their teenage inmates died.
Posted on Wed, Oct. 10, 2007

BY SUSANNAH A. NESMITH
snesmith@MiamiHerald.com



TERRY BARNER / AP
Former Bay County Boot Camp guard Charles
Helms Jr. demonstrates the use of compliance
force used on boot camp inmates during the
trial of eight former boot camp employees
accused of negligence in the 2006 death of
inmate Martin Lee Anderson in Panama City.

PANAMA CITY -- A former Bay County boot camp drill instructor had a simple answer when asked Tuesday if he wished he had done anything different to a teenage inmate who died after being beaten at the camp.

''Everything,'' said Patrick Garrett, almost inaudibly, choking back tears.

''After the fact, after all this, obviously you would wish that we would have done something differently to let him recover,'' said Garrett, an Army veteran.

Garrett's testimony was part of an emotional day in the trial of seven former boot camp guards and a nurse accused of letting 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson die last year.

The guards were videotaped hitting and kicking the teen for almost 30 minutes, as the nurse looked on, before they called an ambulance.



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in prison. I hope.

Sick bastards.

Julie

plenty of time.

getting this kid ready for prison... :sarcasm:

Hell, in California, they can send 14 year olds to prison...

This is just a symptom of the totally fucked up criminal-injustice system in this country...

The fucked up criminal-injustice system is just a symptom of the sick, sick, ME society that we're saddled with in this country.



The more I think about it, the only Dem candidates who are proactively hopeful, whose advocacy could change the system a little are Kucinich, Obama and Edwards.

Hillary and any of the repukes would be just more of the same-o same-o...

Crocodile tears.