We are talking about the film “Hell Camp: Teenage Nightmare”, which reveals shocking facts about “therapeutic” camps for troubled youth, created by Steve Cartisano. In recent years, the events have come under scrutiny due to reports of aggressive staff, inhumane conditions that children had to endure, and traumatic effects of participating in the events.
“Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare.” A shocking documentary was released on Netflix
“I was choked, punched in the face. Male staff spied on me in the shower,” Paris Hilton talks about the trauma of her Utah teen camp, via Variety. However, this is only the beginning of shocking reports about extreme attempts to resocialize teenagers in the United States.
The 90-minute film details what happened during the 63-day camp organized by former Special Forces officer Steve Cartisano, who founded the Challenger Foundation in the 1980s. The documentary included accounts of event participants who, years later, told about the nightmare their parents had experienced for them.
As per the Daily Mail, Cartisano believed in his methods. “These children need it, we save the lives of many people,” he declared. The teenagers’ parents trusted the originator of the camps and agreed to have their children kidnapped in the middle of the night for $16,000 and taken to the desert, where they had to cover 500 miles in extreme conditions.
Camp participants were often victims of emotional and physical violence. Children did not receive medical assistance in the camp. One of the boys was dragged through the desert and had the skin torn off his back. The services had to take him from the camp so that he could receive help. Failure to provide children with access to medical care was an irresponsible move also because of the addicts staying in the camp. Discontinuation of certain substances without appropriate medical intervention can result in fatal consequences.
“NEVER watch this”
However, the greatest controversy in connection with the Cartisano camps was the death of Kristen Chase. A participant of one of the camps died only three days after the start of the camp due to a stroke, but the organizer of the event was acquitted and created subsequent trips with the same formula and equally strict rules. What is also shocking is the fact that Cartisano had no qualifications to help his students. He lacked any psychological education screenrant.com website. The creator of extreme camps for difficult youth died in 2019.
Viewers of the documentary warn children who are sensitive to suffering against the screening. “NEVER watch this. It’s disgusting on too many levels. A nightmare,” we read on Twitter. The words were confirmed by other people in the comments. “I’m done watching, it’s pure evil,” says another opinion quoted by the Daily Mail. One viewer called what he saw a camp of torture and ill-treatment, and viewers discussed among themselves how the “absolute madness” seen on the screen could have been allowed.
Source: Gazeta
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