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Youth Challenge Program officer arrested for cruelty to a juvenile

by Minden Press-Herald
An incident involving the alleged physical abuse of a 16-year-old male cadet at the Youth Challenge Program at Camp Minden led to the arrest of his supervisor. Charle
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Miles Jan 26, 2022 - 6:36 am

Go to any YCP program at the last month of the cycle and meet one of these kids face to face. Lets see if you can call them “kids”. They are built. In my opinion, which is actually valid since I’m a graduate from Camp Minden, is that if this cadre wanted to truly hurt the kid he would of sent him to 4th platoon which is 99% black, worst of the worst, jailbirds. Or he would of taken away meals/sleep which is actually on paper the “right” thing to do. But, instead it was just some physical violence. In this program missing a single meal is the worst pain in the world with all the exercise. That’s real abuse in my opinion as a graduate. By the way to put it into perspective, fights happened daily and lasted 2 seconds always with one person being knocked out. They get up shake hands and fight again a few days later. This isn’t some fragile kid, in the cadres mind out of the 1200 kids who started only 200 remain which are the roughest toughest kids usually and one of these kids can literally pick him up and slam him. I literally saw a kid smaller than me about 5’5ft pick up a 6’4 cadre and body slam him and beat his ass in a 1 on 1 fight during the last month of the program.

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