Boy who died at nature therapy camp couldn't breathe in tentlike structure, autopsy finds

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Medical examiners in North Carolina say a boy who died while enrolled in a nature therapy camp couldn't breathe in the tentlike structure he was sleeping in. The 12-year-old died in February in western North Carolina while participating in the Trails Carolina wilderness program for troubled youths. An autopsy report was released Monday.

LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. — A 12-year-old boy who was enrolled in a wilderness therapy program for troubled youths in North Carolinafrom an inability to breathe in the mostly plastic tentlike structure he was sleeping in, according to an autopsy report.

“Asphyxia due to smothering refers to death due to the inability to breath in oxygen, in this case due to covering the nose and mouth with a non-breathable material,” the medical examiners wrote. A counselor told detectives from the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office that the boy refused to eat dinner and was “loud and irate,” but later calmed down and ate snacks, according to an affidavit filed with a search warrant that was released in February. The boy slept on the bunkhouse floor in a sleeping bag inside a bivy that had an alarm on its zipper triggered when someone tries to exit.

 

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