Pubdate: Sat, 16 Feb 2002
Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News (CO)
Copyright: 2002, Denver Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/371
Author: Alisa Blackwood, Associated Press

DIRECTOR OF CAMP FOR TROUBLED KIDS ARRESTED ON MURDER, ABUSE CHARGES

PHOENIX -- The director of a boot camp for troubled youngsters was arrested 
on murder and child-abuse charges Friday in the death of a teen-age camper 
who collapsed in the 111-degree heat last summer. Charles Long II, 56, was 
also charged with aggravated assault for allegedly pulling a knife on a 
camper, and with marijuana possession for a quarter-pound of the drug found 
in his bedroom closet.

The second-degree murder charge was filed over the death of 14-year-old 
Anthony Haynes. He died July 1 while attending a five-week boot camp 
operated by the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association.

The medical examiner's office said Haynes died of complications from 
dehydration and near-drowning -- dehydration after being made to stand in 
the sun for up to five hours, the near-drowning from being left in a motel 
bathtub, where he had been taken to cool him off.

Camp sergeant Ray Anderson, 39, was also arrested Friday and charged with 
child abuse for allegedly spanking, stomping, beating and whipping more 
than 14 children.
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