World Chinese teen allegedly beaten to death at web addiction camp

[The Helper]

A Chinese teenager was allegedly beaten to death at a boot camp for troubled youths that his mother had lured him to attend by promising he was going to study IT, state media said Thursday.

Chen Shi, 16, died two days after enrolling in Beiteng School in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, having been beaten up when he refused to run during training, the Beijing Times reported.

According to witnesses, an instructor -- helped by two others -- beat him with a plastic pipe, handcuffs and a wooden baton when he refused to run.

The incident comes amid controversy over China's hundreds of boot camps that aim to discipline unruly youths or wean them off web addictions.

Whole story here.

 

[AnthraxXx]

I bet his mother has regrets.

 

[esb]

Again?

 

[FireCat]

What the hell. Beat a kid to death because he refuses to run? :nuts: There is something seriously wrong with their brains.

 

[Lyerae]

Again?

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[Asehujiko]

What the hell. Beat a kid to death because he refuses to run? :nuts: There is something seriously wrong with their brains.

Their internet addiction treatment facilities are concentration camps for political bloggers. The ones that aren't murdered are there just to fill out the roster because "100 people got sent there and 100 people died" doesn't sound as good as "5000 got sent there and only 100 people died".