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March 16, 2006

Medical Examiner Defends Boot Camp Finding

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A medical examiner who did the original autopsy on a 14-year-old who was punched and kicked by guards at a juvenile boot camp defended on Thursday his finding that the boy died of a blood disorder.

The youth, Martin Lee Anderson, was sent to the Bay County Sheriff's Office boot camp on Jan. 5 for a probation violation. A surveillance video showed guards kicking and punching him after he collapsed while exercising on his first day at the camp, and he died at a hospital early the next day.

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Shantella Parker, 16, right, gathers with hundreds of others for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, Tuesday, March 14, 2006, in front of the Bay County sheriff's juvenile boot camp in Panama City, Fla. Gina Jones, mother of the youth who was beaten and kicked at the camp, said Tuesday she wants justice now that a second autopsy showed that he did not die from a blood disorder as a medical examiner initially ruled. (AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch)

The sheriff's office has said guards were trying to get Anderson to participate after he became uncooperative.

An initial autopsy, performed by Dr. Charles Siebert, determined that Anderson died a natural death from sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder.

A second autopsy was ordered after the teen's parents questioned Siebert's findings, and was conducted Monday by Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams.

It could take weeks for a cause of death to be determined. But Dr. Michael Baden, who observed the new autopsy on behalf of the teen's family, said it was clear Anderson did not die from sickle cell trait, or from any other natural causes.

Siebert, who also was present for the second autopsy, stood by his original finding.

"My conclusion, based on more than a decade of practice, is that the exertion from exercise triggered Mr. Anderson's sickle cell trait which caused Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), resulting in hemorrhaging," Siebert, the Bay County medical examiner, said in a statement.

In Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, small blood clots develop throughout the bloodstream and can cause severe bleeding.

 

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March 16, 2006

 

 
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