In case you missed it, the LA Times reported that just as the Heaps trial ended one UCLA scandal involving sexual assault, another one seems to be blossoming, this time among counselors at the Bruin Woods summer camp program. It appears from the Times report that the events described may not be a one-off occurrence but rather something that has been going on for many years:
When UCLA students Samea Derrick and Lydia Dixon were hired as camp counselors at Bruin Woods, a Lake Arrowhead summer getaway for alumni, they were excited to land the coveted job with its networking opportunities. But after less than one week at the camp, the two would head back down the mountain and return home, traumatized by intense hazing at the hands of other counselors, they said. During those five days in June, Derrick, 19, and Dixon, 20, said they were sexually assaulted and hazed by returning student counselors, including physical and verbal abuse, sensory deprivation, forced nudity, and coercive drinking games.
Derrick and Dixon spoke with The Times and filed a lawsuit this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the University of California regents and other camp counselors, including two men accused of sexually assaulting them. The lawsuit alleges the hazing activities, referred to by counselors as “traditions,” have taken place for decades at the camp, established in 1985 for UCLA alumni and their families. It references a 1999 news article by the Daily Bruin student newspaper, which mentions activities such as swimming in the lake naked and partying as prerequisites for becoming a counselor.
“The reason that we’re doing this is to expose the dangerous behavior at Bruin Woods and to hold the regents accountable for allowing the behavior to go unchecked for so long,” said Scott Carr, an attorney who filed the lawsuit Tuesday on the students’ behalf. The suit alleges negligence, civil rights violations, hazing, gender violence, two cases of assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It seeks a jury trial, $50,000 in damages and compensation for legal fees and medical expenses.
Before arriving at the camp, Derrick and Dixon said they had heard rumors of heavy drinking, partying and sex. Incoming counselors were given a packing list that included a fake ID for under-21 students, condoms and birth control, the lawsuit said...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-20/two-ucla-students-allege-sexual-assault-hazing-bruin-woods-summer-camp.
You can read the full account in the Times article. However, it appears from the description that adult supervision was either lacking or deficient.
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