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[badboy78660]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/14/chinese-teenager-dies-48-hours-entering-internet-rehab-camp/

A teenager has died within two days of entering an internet addiction camp, marking the latest tragedy at the hands of one of China's harsh addiction treatment centres.

Eighteen-year-old Li Ao was found to have over 20 external injuries as well as internal injuries, according to state media, though the exact cause of death is unknown.

After various attempts at controlling his time spent online, Li's parents sent him earlier this month to an internet addiction treatment camp in Fuyang city in Anhui province, a poor region in eastern China.

The camp claimed to use ”gentle treatment" – psychological counselling and physical training – and promised there was no use of corporal punishment.

But within 48 hours of their son's arrival, the parents were told he had been taken into hospital where he later died. His parents were allowed to see his body. The cause of death is currently unclear.

Li's parents had tried encouraging their son to set up a business, join the army, go travelling – without success.

As with many other parents in China concerned about the amount of time their children spend online, their last resort was a treatment centre.

They told the teachers their son was particularly tough when they dropped him off.

Boot camps that claim to treat addictions to gaming and the internet have proliferated in China.

They tend to present themselves as using military tactics to discipline the addicts. Some have been known to use electric shocks on the inmates.

This camp in Fuyang city was an illegal operation and had been ordered to close on multiple occasions by the local education authorities.

After this incident the local government shut it down. The school's management and four instructors were detained by police and an investigation is under way.

In 2009 the Ministry of Health recognised internet addiction and called for a stop to barbaric treatments such as physical restraint.

This year the government drafted laws which could ban the use of specific treatments such as electric shocks.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Could be a treatment gone wrong/negligence?

 

[Volimar]

Could be a treatment gone wrong/negligence?

Pretty sure that's the implication. Not sure why they'd need to be so physical over an addiction.

 

[sandpiper]

They have these fucked up 'rehab camps' in the US and kids get beaten/killed in them, too, sadly.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-exp...learned-escaping-troubled-teens-facility.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92908

Parents have some people abduct their kids and take them to these camps. They're fucked up stuff in America as well.

 

[SuperBowser]

Could be a treatment gone wrong/negligence?

Not sure what negligence or "treatment" leads to multiple external and internal injuries. Sounds more like extreme physical abuse (murder).

 

[Hidden One]

They have these fucked up 'rehab camps' in the US and kids get beaten/killed in them, too, sadly.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-exp...learned-escaping-troubled-teens-facility.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92908

Parents have some people abduct their kids and take them to these camps. They're fucked up stuff in America as well.

That first story would make a good movie tbh...

 

[Earthbound64]

If he was 18, how were his parents able to force him to do this?
Or does that age mean nothing in China? (Maybe it doesn't - I'm honestly not positive)

 

[entremet]

If he was 18, how were his parents able to force him to do this?

Not familiar with Confucianism? Filial honor is deeply ingrained.

 

[JettDash]

I thought this was rehab done over the internet and I was like how the fuck do they do that and how did someone die from it.

 

[whybother]

They have these fucked up 'rehab camps' in the US and kids get beaten/killed in them, too, sadly.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-exp...learned-escaping-troubled-teens-facility.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92908

Parents have some people abduct their kids and take them to these camps. They're fucked up stuff in America as well.

Holy shit, abduction? They're probably scarring their kids for life instead of helping.

 

[andythinkpad]

If he was 18, how were his parents able to force him to do this?
Or does that age mean nothing in China? (Maybe it doesn't - I'm honestly not positive)

You want to keep living off your parents and get free shit you got to go to the internet camp.

 

[Goofalo]

If its corrective behavior run by Asians, I'm just going to assume there are beatings.

My cousins were little monster and their parents sent them to a boot camp run by Korean Marines. They go the shit kicked out of them.

http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-korea-bootcamp-pictures-photogallery.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/world/asia/22camp.html

 

[Kieli]

Could be a treatment gone wrong/negligence?

Let's be real. There's less than 0% for it to "have gone wrong", as you state it, when the person is left with multiple internal and external injuries.

Don't be that guy.

 

[Dingens]

They have these fucked up 'rehab camps' in the US and kids get beaten/killed in them, too, sadly.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-exp...learned-escaping-troubled-teens-facility.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92908

Parents have some people abduct their kids and take them to these camps. They're fucked up stuff in America as well.

there's gotta be some documentaries about this stuff, right?

 

[CrocMother]

This is the most chinese story ever