The death of a 12-year-old boy at a controversial for-profit North Carolina camp for troubled children has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Monday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, officers were called to the Trails Carolina wilderness camp in Lake Toxaway on February 3, a little after 8 a.m., after staff found …
A 12-year-old boy found dead after spending the night in a tiny tent at a North Carolina wilderness therapy camp earlier this year may have suffocated in that tent, a staff member assigned to check his breathing in the night told state investigators. Staff at Trails Carolina did not visually check the boy overnight and …
The parents of a 12-year-old boy think Trails Carolina might be just the place to help their son. Trails Carolina claims to be a Leader in Wilderness Therapy offering an Adventure Wilderness Program for children who have behavioral and or emotional difficulties. The parents say their boy is transported by two men from New York …
All of the children at Trails Carolina, the North Carolina wilderness camp where a 12-year-old boy lost his life earlier this month, have now been removed. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services made the announcement Friday morning, according to ABC 13. “It was determined that action needed to be taken to ensure the …
North Carolina authorities have clamped down on a “wilderness therapy” program for troubled children after a 12-year-old boy died in their care less than 24 hours after his arrival. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office said Trails Carolina had “not completely” cooperated with the investigation, although the organization angrily denied that. In …
North Carolina officials are investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy at a wilderness therapy camp in the mountains of the western part of the state. A forensic pathologist said the boy’s death, the day after his arrival at Trails Carolina, “appeared to not be natural,” the Transylvania County Sheriff ‘s Office said, adding that …
