Tough love is one thing, just being plain sadistic is another. The latter sounds like the standard operational mode of the Nueces County Christian “Boot Camp”. Troubled teens, whatever that term means, are sent here to get their lives back on track. On the surface it’s an admirable goal, the problem lies with the manner of the “treatment”.
Teens in these camps are given large doses of “Christian training” as well as forced marches, brutal treatment and in one case, being dragged behind a truck on a rope. Sounds like good old time religion to me!
Rev. Charles Flowers and an assistant are being charged with aggravated assault for their treatment of a 15 year old girl in their camp. The teen said the assistant held her down while Flowers tied her to the back of a vehicle. She was dragged after being forced to run behind a moving van.
Somehow I don’t think this is what Jesus had in mind when he said “love one another”.
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