Things aren’t getting any better for a 19-year-old video gamer who has been locked up since March for the remarks he made over Facebook.
The father of the teen now says his son is being beaten up while he waits to stand trial. In an interview with National Public Radio that aired Wednesday, Jack Carter said his son Justin has suffered countless injuries since being locked up in a Texas detention facility more than three months ago.
“Without getting into the really nasty details, he’s had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection,” Jack Carter told NPR. “He’s been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he’s depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience.”
Prisoner abuse isn’t anything new, but the so-called crime that’s left Justin Carter facing potentially eight years in prison could be unprecedented. He’s been locked up without trial since late March after authorities were alerted to a Facebook message that Carter……..
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