Counselors sentenced for summer camp hazing

[Deja Q]

I wish they did this sort of thing when I was a child, the title alone bringing back some memories of my own...

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PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Two teenagers were sentenced Friday to at least a month in jail for poking young boys in the buttocks with broomsticks while working as counselors at a summer camp.

Clifton Bennett, 18, and Kyle Wheeler, 19, were accused of poking the boys over their clothing with broomsticks, a flashlight and a cane as a punishment or just because they were in a bad mood.

Bennett, the son of a powerful state senator, was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail. Wheeler received 45 days.

Bennett apologized, telling the judge he had compromised the campers’ “ability to live their lives.”

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In addition to the jail time, the two teens were ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and spend three years on supervised probation.

The victims, ages 11 to 14, were junior high school standouts and student council officers from across Arizona who had been hand-picked to attend a weeklong leadership camp.

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