From Maia Szalavitz’ blog in the USA:
Nearly a year after 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson was killed by guards at a Florida sheriff’s juvenile boot camp, eight people– including the nurse who stood by and watched indifferently as the others kicked, beat and ultimately suffocated the boy– have been charged with aggravated manslaughter.Torture of José Padilla: here.But the real culprits in the case– just as in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal– have avoided indictment.
Guy Tunnell, the man who set up the boot camp and as head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement defended it even as he was charged with investigating it and Frank McKeithen, a sheriff who was suspected of trying to cover up the abuse that led to the death– were both cleared.
