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 Dad: Camper `wasn't feeling well'

By Marlene Naanes
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted August 14 2006

Police offered no insight Sunday into how a 13-year-old from Broward County died at a state park campout for a private military academy, but a father of two cadets who were there said his sons described the boy as sick.

More than 36 hours after the teen's death, North Miami police would not release his name. A cause of death was expected after the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner performs an autopsy scheduled for early today.

Victor Jusino, of Sunrise, said on Sunday his sons, ages 9 and 10, told him the boy appeared ill after the 33 cadets arrived at Oleta River State Park in northeast Miami-Dade County early Wednesday.

"They described to me that he wasn't eating. He wasn't feeling well. His stomach was hurting him and the heat was getting to him," Jusino said. "The whole trip, he was throwing away food while he was there."

The boy collapsed about 3 a.m. Saturday while being escorted to the restroom by a volunteer drill sergeant. He was taken to Parkway Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Jusino said his sons were dehydrated, sunburned and had multiple insect bites when he picked them up Saturday morning at the North Miami police station. The oldest boy told his father one drill sergeant pushed him up against a tree when he failed to obey a command quickly enough.

Lynda Browne, principal of the host for the four-day campout, Back to Basics Christian Military Academy in Lauderhill, would not respond Sunday to media inquiries about the death.

On Saturday Browne said the dead teen had been well hydrated and well fed and his mother had told her the boy "wasn't the most physical, strong or athletic child."

 

 

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