VI Gov. Mapp Slams Camp: 'Why is a Day Camp for Children Teaching Children To Make Pipe Bombs'

[TexasTowelie]

MAPP SLAMS CAMP FOR PIPE BOMB ORDEAL: ‘WHY IS A DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN TEACHING CHILDREN TO MAKE PIPE BOMBS?’


ST. CROIX — Governor Kenneth Mapp assailed the leaders of the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) camp during a press conference on Monday, for what the governor described as a disturbing situation that led to the halting of commerce and the evacuation of employees in the Sunny Annex on Friday, after a device resembling a pipe bomb was discovered in the middle of the road near Joe’s Restaurant in Sunny Isle.

According to Police Commissioner Delroy Richards, the device was stuck underneath a vehicle at YWAM as part of a game, and wound up in the middle of the road near the restaurant. Cherilyn Derusha, youth director at YWAM, confirmed to this publication that the device indeed came from the camp, and was made by camp staff as part of a game that is often played at the facility called “Behind Enemy Lines”, which is essentially Capture the Flag.

Ms. Derusha apologized for the confusion in an official statement issued late Friday.

The governor, bewildered by the incident, questioned the motive of the camp’s staff.

“Why is a day camp for children teaching children to make pipe bombs and then trying to find them, that they could hide them, that they could fall off a truck and create the kind of expense not only to the government, but to the businesses in that area that had to close for all of those hours? Restaurants were preparing food from early in the morning because of the crowd they have for launch time, only to be told at 9:00 a.m. you’ve got to close your restaurant, turn your stove off and get out of the building until the government can determine what kind of device that is.

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