BEIJING: A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by trainers at a rehabilitation camp in southern China where his parents had sent him to cure his Internet addiction, reports said yesterday.
The four supervisors who allegedly beat Deng Senshan, 16, were arrested after the boy's death early on Sunday, his father Deng Fei told the Global Times.
'We are investigating a case where a high school student was beaten to death by his camp supervisors. The case is still under investigation,' a police officer in Nanning, capital of Guangxi region, was quoted as saying.
Mr Deng said he paid 7,000 yuan (S$1,470) to give his son a month's training at the Guangxi Qihuang Survival Training Camp to rid him of his addiction.
He said he saw the ad for the camp on TV last week and travelled from Guilin, another city in Guangxi, to Nanning last Saturday, with his son. 'The camp workers picked up my son that afternoon, and promised they would tell me about his behaviour at the camp in three days,' he said. But instead the boy was put in solitary confinement and then beaten to death.
'My son was very healthy and was not a criminal. He just had an Internet addiction when I left him at the camp,' Mr Deng told the paper.
More than 10 million of the country's 100 million teenage Web surfers are Net addicts, the China Daily said. The Health Ministry last month banned the use of electroshock therapy to treat Internet addiction.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, XINHUA
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