Boot camp official pleads guilty to negligent homicide in teen's death

PHOENIX - A man who pleaded guilty in the death of a 14-year-old boy at a boot camp has agreed to help prosecutors in their case against the camp&#39;s director. <br> <br> The teen-age boy, Anthony Haynes, died of complications of dehydration and near-drowning last summer after he collapsed in triple-digit heat and two counselors put him in a bathtub to cool down. <br> <br> Prosecutors will recommend that one of the counselors, Troy A. Hutty, be sentenced to probation on a negligent homicide charge, as part of a plea agreement announced Wednesday. Hutty was originally indicted for manslaughter, which carries a maximum penalty of 12½ years in jail. <br> <br> Under the plea deal, Hutty will tell prosecutors what he knows about camp director Charles Long II, who was charged with second-degree murder last week in Haynes&#39; death. <br> <br> &#34;We want the truth,&#34; said Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. Hutty&#39;s cooperation &#34;allows us to get not just a clearer understanding but things we not might otherwise get without him.&#34; <br> <br> Hutty&#39;s attorney, Gary Beren, did not return phone calls seeking comment. <br> <br> Haynes died July 1 after being made to stand in the sun for up to five hours, then being left in the bathtub with the shower running, the medical examiner&#39;s office said. <br> <br> Hutty called Long twice to say he was concerned about Haynes&#39; condition and that the boy wasn&#39;t responding, according to sheriff&#39;s department documents. Long told Hutty to bring Haynes back to the camp because he thought the teen-ager was faking. <br> <br> Haynes wasn&#39;t breathing when they returned to the camp. Camp supervisors called 911, but Haynes never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead later that night. <br> <br> Haynes was attending a five-week boot camp near Phoenix operated by the America&#39;s Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association. The camp was shut down after the teen&#39;s death, although the group still operates other programs. <br> <br> Long planned to plead innocent at his arraignment Friday, said his attorney, David Smith. He is being held on $100,000 bail. <br> <br> Two other camp officials also were arrested last week. <br> <br> Sheriff Joe Arpaio has called the camp &#34;organized torture towards children.&#34; It included forced marches, wearing black uniforms in the desert, harsh discipline and a daily diet of an apple, a carrot and a bowl of beans. <br> <br> Lawsuits have been filed by Haynes&#39; parents and a woman who claimed her son was beaten, forced to eat mud and deprived of sleep. <br> <br> There have been at least five other deaths at youth boot camps in the past decade and numerous abuse allegations across the country. <br> <br>

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