Back in May, the Missouri-based Kanakuk Kamps announced that they were going to stay open over the summer. The popular Christian summer camp wasn’t going to shut down.
That was an absurd statement to make that soon into the pandemic, but it was even more shocking because they weren’t just talking about a few campers. They wanted to bring in a staff of 1,600 people (included 100 nurses and 60 doctors) and roughly 20,000 kids at any of their five locations.
You’ll never guess what happened next: There were COVID outbreaks. Lots of them.
And yet that’s not even the worst thing they’re known for. In 2013, the camp faced multiple allegations of sexual abuse by its former director Peter D. Newman. One lawsuit against the camp said Newman molested a child who was only 13. The other lawsuit said Newman abused a boy who was only 10. Both lawsuits said the abuse lasted for years.
Those incidents, by the way, weren’t isolated. In fact, Newman was in prison when those lawsuits were filed because he was found guilty of child sexual abuse in other cases:
This is the worst kind of trash and subhumanity.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter how they are punished. They just don’t seem to be able to use their consciences for whatever reason. It’s just the way they were born, and the way they were brought up, among many other reasons.