BY BRENT KALLESTAD
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An amended $5 million claims bill for the family of a teenager who died after being brutally murdered roughed up by guards at a state-supervised boot camp passed the Senate on Wednesday and was sent to the governor.

Gov. Charlie Crist and black lawmakers had led the effort to compensate the family of Martin Lee Anderson, who died in January 2006 shortly after being kneed, struck and having ammonia tablets held to his nose at the military-style facility run by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Panama City.

The state already has paid Anderson’s parents $200,000, the most allowed by law without legislative approval. The bill would pay the remaining $4.8 million of the proposed settlement.

“While no dollar amount will return their son to his family, compensating them for this tragedy is the right thing to do,” Crist said.

The sheriff’s office has settled separately with the Anderson family for $2.4 million. Seven guards and a nurse employed at the camp face manslaughter charges.

Seven guards and a nurse have been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of Martin Lee Anderson, the 14-year-old boy who died in January a day after he entered a Bay County juvenile boot camp.

State Attorney Mark Ober, special prosecutor in the case, today announced the charges against the seven, who are being arrested this morning.

Charged are Henry Dickens, Charles Enfinger, Patrick Garrett, Raymond Hauck, Charles Helms Jr., Henry McFadden Jr., Kristin Schmidt and Joseph Walsh II, according to a filing Ober made today in state circuit court in Bay County.

“We hope at the end of the day justice will be served and at the end of the day the Martin Lee Anderson family will have the answers to the questions they deserve,” said Gov. Jeb Bush this morning.

Ober’s charges said in part the defendants, “did cause the death of Martin Lee Anderson by culpable negligence, without lawful justification or excuse, by neglecting Martin Lee Anderson by failure or omission to provide Martin Lee Anderson with care, supervision or services necessary to maintain his physical or mental health …”

The announcement comes almost 11 months after Martin Lee Anderson collapsed on the exercise yard at the Bay County sheriff’s boot camp in Panama City on January 5th.

Guards said he was uncooperative and refused to continue participating in exercises that were part of the boot camp’s intake processes.

He died early the next morning in Pensacola.

This past January, boot-camp Sadist employees from the Bay County, Florida Sheriff’s Office beat and suffocated 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson before he collapsed and died. The nurse stood by watching, doing nothing..
The state of Florida attempted a cover up that did not work.
Jeb Bush apparently lied to the family promising swift justice attempting to appease a family that was grief stricken promised swift justice.

Heh.
Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen told The Associated Press that he rejected a $3 million settlement because, “The investigation is incomplete and still pending at this time.” They have filed a 40 million dollar suit.
In my opinion, it’s to damn bad it wasn’t 400 million.
Did they not see the videotape of the sadist guards beating Martin Anderson? Believe me that jurors in a civil trial will.

The investigation which was removed from the corrupt hands of Florida Department of Law Enforcement chief Guy Tunnell, and assigned to Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober, “is incomplete and still pending” seven months later.Makes me wonder..

No charges have been filed against the seven guards. There has been no resonable explanation for how the original coroner in the case, Charles Siebert, ruled from a suspended license that Martin Anderson died from an undiagnosed sickle cell trait.

Jeb Bush lied misspoke again when he promised reform. Change the name of the camps to “STAR” and then don’t fund them. Jeb Bush, you really have some answering to do..
Martin Lee Anderson’s family has gone to civil court. Perhaps the jurors will cry with and for them, I hope so…
This could have been your kid.

This is a rant, pure and simple.
If you’re not in the mood come back tomorrow!

I have as yawl know, been following the death of Martin Lee Anderson for months,
I have emailed, called, faxed and even tried telepathy to get the truth..

Umm yes the telepathy part I made up.

This morning while wandering around the news, I came across a forum.
In the discussion, this kids mom, and family were insulted,
Martin was convicted of being a gang member,
And somehow..
Some Freaking how..

This has become an issue about race

This is not about race!
This is about a facility run by the state of Florida,
That willfully mistreated a 14 yr old kid
Willfully denied him medical treatment.
Willfully attempted to cover up the facts in the case
Willfully spread lies about the kid
Willfully has refused to make charges.

Frankly I don’t care if Martian Anderson was black, orange, green or purple, or white.
I don’t care if he was a junkie gang member.
Because it does not matter.

I do care that justice is done, and that the truth is told.
That those who were accountable for the well being of each kid in these camps
Are held accountable.

I am starting to wonder…………….

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Jeb Bush
I’m so danged proud of you
Just ..

Well..

Just….
I have some Questions you don’t want to answer
And I thank you for your polite refusal
(ask me Jeb refused to speak to me last week)

And so I just wonder
What the hell you’re trying to do here
Cause If you seriously
Believed this child was murdered.. And you are the governor
Why have there been no charges?
After a 5 month investigation?

Why are murderers sadist guards free?
Why was the sadist nurse not charged?
Heck for that matter
WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO CHARGES?
Why was the top official of the FDLE?
Transferred to cold cases?
Why was the sheriff in charge of the camp not fired?
Why is he still working for the state of Florida?
Hey Mr. Governor
Blow some smoke up someone else’s pant sleeves
Cause I as a republican and a resident of Florida am not buying into this
Have a nice day Mr. Governor
And I am not going away
So..
well we have the same damn camps with a new name
Way to go Jeb
You wont make me vote for you ..
but Im just a pissant
But I have a voice
And you make me ashamed
You Should be ashamed