Teen Killed in Internet Addiction Camp
Rather than ridding a teen of his Internet addiction problem, three supervisors decided to beat him to death instead.
The Global Times is reporting that a teenager was beaten to death in an Internet addiction boot camp. Three camp supervisors were responsible for killing 16-year-old Deng Senshan, and was detained by local police this past Sunday. According to the boy's father, Deng Fei, Deng Senshan was killed because he ran too slow.
"My son was very healthy and was not a criminal," the father said. "He just had an Internet addiction when I left him at the camp."
Internet addiction camps are becoming commonplace throughout China, aimed to treat symptoms of "Internet Addiction Disorder" (IAD), a standard terminology recently set in place by a panel of Chinese medical experts. Signs of the disorder include irritation when patients are unable to access the internet, difficulty with sleeping and concentrating, and a fear of social contact.
Deng said that he paid roughly $1,024 (7,000 Yuan) for his son to attend the camp for one month. Information provided by the camp promised that it would help the teen become independent, and by working closely with training teachers, rid him of the Internet addiction. “Our methods are tough but do not include torture or other methods that might damage a child’s health,” reads the mission statement.
After scolding and then beating the teen, the three teachers realized the severity of the injuries inflicted upon Deng Senshan and drove him to the hospital... three hours later. The teen was declared dead ten minutes after his arrival.
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I guess no refund because he's cured now?
Makes getting beat up in WoW or a VR seem a lot more healthy.
Does China practice "Eye for an Eye"?
I guess when they call it "boot camp" they mean it -- not only do you get the boot, but also the fist of three teachers.
Typical China...
Perhaps China wants to "cure" the general populace of "cancerous" civilians. If it were almost any other country, I wouldn't believe it.
This is sad. Why can't the chinese let people die natural deaths in front of WoW by not eating, drinking, or using the bathroom like evewryone else? Silly China, and your backwards ways...
Wow..I thought the US was bad for creating all these nice disorders to blame lifes problems on..internet addiction..hmm I wonder if there is one for porn there..
Sad. I hope charges are brought against those "teachers". This can't be allowed to become accepted as part of treating an internet addiction.
Dude China is insane. Remember the Foxconn story about the missing iphone, which lead to a suicide. Now this crap. China is so strict when coming to the internet. They have software installed on all machines that block certain cites. And now internet addiction boot camps. CRAZY!
You just know there is something wrong, when they feel the need to point out they don't torture.
+1 ^
“Our methods are tough but do not include torture or other methods that might damage a child’s health,”
China and Do Not Include Torture just don't go together. You would think the frickin Chinese of all people would have figured that out by now.
Does China practice "Eye for an Eye"?
Yes, the counsolers are going to end up being executed on public TV with about 40 other people. A gunshot to the back of the head.
LOL
Wow.
Thought this was a south park episode at first.
Kind of like mcdonalds stamping their wrappers and boxes with 100% beef.
Sad. I hope charges are brought against those "teachers". This can't be allowed to become accepted as part of treating an internet addiction.
internet addiction? seriously? people take some responsibility for f***ing your life up. fat people dont have issues either, its within your control to change these things, dont try make it seem like a disease when all it is is lack of will power. on another note the fact that he is killed is insane... really messed up.
Why cant all of china be like Hong Kong, just alot of drunken fun...with less people dying.
I'm TELLING YO THEM CHINESE TORTURE ARE CRAZY MAN
Rmember THAT IPOD case WHER THE PROTOTYPE WAS LOST, ETC???
ITS THE BRUTALITY IN CHINA, ITS F***ING CRAZY
Dude China is insane. Remember the Foxconn story about the missing iphone, which lead to a suicide. Now this crap. China is so strict when coming to the internet. They have software installed on all machines that block certain cites. And now internet addiction boot camps. CRAZY!
That's [b]EXACTLY[b]WHAT I'M SAYING.
Like fat people, persons with "internet disease" deserve death, like this individual.
His father can just make another kid that looks just like him.
Typical China...
Beat the _insert problem_ out of them.
Now you know why there is so little violent crime (like robberies, rape) in China and very low rates of repeat criminal activity. This was only a boot camp for children, imagine what Chinese jail is like. No one who survives jail in China wants to go back and so they stop their criminal behavior.
I'm in favor of Chinese style prisons where prisoners are told they are a scourge to society and they should take it as a blessing if they are allowed to rejoin society (that is survive). There aren't any TVs, books, or entertainment. Prisoners have to work and also have to write an essay every day (at least in the past for political prisoners) on why they were wrong to do what they did and how they are reformed now. The then go into a room where a several people hear the prisoner recite his essay. The "rehabilitators" then shout at the prisoner accusing him of BS and insincerity. He is then led back to his cell and told to think about what was shouted and write another essay tomorrow, this time with sincerity.
The thing is that this actually works. When a person is forced to write and "pretend" to believe in something (what he did was wrong), eventually he WILL believe it given enough time. We should force our prisoners to write daily essays too.
Sad story, his parents must be devastated. He was probably their only kid.
I can these opening in America and being just as bad. . .
If you really want to cure someone of internet addiction, it would be probably be a better idea to let them have lots of fun doing other activities, rather than being tough on them. If the kids find out that being outside and playing games with other kids in social environment is fun then they may just want to spend more time doing just that.
Kicking and hitting don't damage a child's health!!!???
Last time I checked, death had a very negative impact on a person's health.
So now they will just scream insult's and obscenities at the child till he/she breaks and ends up at the top of a clock tower.
"I am in a world of S%#!".
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"
-George Orwell, "1984" page192 (also the official motto of the Chinese government)
If I had to live in that crazed communist regime I would be cooped up inside on the internet all day as well.
“Our methods are tough but do not include torture or other methods that might damage a child’s health,”
Without even that bit in their advertisement... This is just wrong and messed up knowing they beat a 16yo at the camp. Who , their fu*king trainers. I hope they announce their beheadings soon. Seriously. Since they don't seem to have issues with torture and abuse in their country I'll be expecting to hear about it.
Yes why is it the Chinese race is so vulnerable to internet addiction? I always heard about addicting internet stuff over in China. I think it's the fact that their a 3rd world country. Do we really need to be exposing the third world to a fantasy land to them called the internet?
And as if we don't have internet addicts in North America? Japan? Other parts of the world? Hmm, in japan their called NEETs in China their sent to boot camp, in America their called people with disorders and so for some reason China is bad for something like this? smarten up people shit like this happens everywhere, i don't see people complaining when some fucked up shit happens in America, at least not to the extent you people are.
lol, 7,000 Yuan = 1 kilo-dollar
China needs to go to hell