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When "Tough Love" Kills - Murder at Boot camp for teenage offenders

Gina Score was never much of an athlete. At five feet four inches tall and 226 pounds, the eighth-grader was in no condition for strenuous exercise. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where military-style discipline ("Quitting is not an option") prevailed.

The second day, July 21, 1999, began with a sweltering 2.7-mile morning run. Immediately, Score fell behind the rest of the pack and was showing signs of heat stroke. By the end, she was lying in a pool of her own urine, frothing at the mouth, gasping for breath, twitching, and begging for "mommy," according to eyewitnesses.

Staff allegedly denied the girl water but did administer a full course of ridicule: calling her a faker, laughing at her, dragging her, dropping her limp hand onto her face, and finally threatening to videotape her to prove "what a pathetic and uncooperative child she was," the eyewitnesses said. When other girls attempted to shade Score from the pounding sun, they were ordered to step away. After more than three hours of this, the staff finally called an ambulance, but Gina Score died en route to the hospital.

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Posted in: News on December 4, 2005 @ 12:00 AM

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