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Four police officials in southern California have been arrested after they were accused of being brutal to kids at a boot camp. In fact they were accused of beating the kids at a boot camp, which isn’t different from what cops are doing throughout the county with adults.
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“Four Southern California police officers were arrested on suspicion of child cruelty for allegedly abusing more than a dozen boys and girls at a boot camp, authorities said Wednesday.
Huntington Park officers Marissa Larios, 36, and Patrick Nijland, 47, and South Gate officers Carlos Gomez-Marquez, 31, and Edgar Gomez, 35, were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday, said a statement from the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office.
Each officer was released after posting $20,000 bail, sheriff’s spokesman Tony Cipolla said.
The four were drill instructors at a weeklong boot camp for troubled youth that was held in May at the National Guard base in San Luis Obispo, a coastal community about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Nearly 40 youngsters attended the L.E.A.D. program, short for Leadership, Empowerment and Discipline. It had operated for 17 years without complaint.
However, after the most recent camp, parents said their children reported being slapped, kicked, stomped and beaten bloody at times. One boy returned home with a fractured hand.”