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Daily Mail
April 6, 2011
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| Death: the employee was found outside Camp Good News in a supposed suicide by gunshot leaving a note saying he was tired of being accused |
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| Senator Scott Brown revealed the abuse he suffered at the camp in his autobiography |
A man committed suicide at the same camp a senator said he was sexually abused and left notes saying he was 'tired of being accused'.
Police are investigating the suicide by gunshot at Camp Good News in Cape Cod where Senator Scott Brown and another unidentified man claimed they were molested when they were children.
According to the Boston Herald, the 43-year-old man left the notes saying he was 'tired of being accused' and telling loved ones goodbye.
He was found in his car outside the camp's property.
The Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office this week launched an investigation into an allegation that a former ten-year-old camper was repeatedly molested at Camp Good News by an employee who still works there.
The alleged abuse occurred around 1985.
Senator Brown, now 51, said he was also ten when the alleged abuse took place, which he revealed in his memoir Against All Odds, which was released in February.
The latest allegation supposedly took place 15 years later, suggesting that it was ongoing problem at the camp.
Unlike the 36-year-old unidentified man who is seeking legal action, Senator Brown said he does not want to pursue a criminal case.
The 36-year-old's lawyer Mitchell Garabedian said he expected more victims to come forward, especially as it emerged the employee was still working there.
But the employee under investigation is not the same abuser Senator Brown described, sources close to the latest investigation said.
The Senator's autobiography told how the first-term Republican was allegedly fondled by a male employee at the camp about 40 years ago.
Since the book was released in February, investigators have received several calls about other undisclosed matters at the camp, prosecutor Brian Glenny said.
Hope Willard Brooks, deputy director of Camp Good News, said officials were worried other victims could come forward after Senator Brown's book was released.
'We are horrified and absolutely devastated that this would have happened at our wonderful camp,' she told the Boston Globe.
'But these things might have happened. These things have happened at many other places. In the '70s and '80s, things were so different.
'We did not spend so much time on these matters and talking to our staff and being so very careful as we are now.'
The camp has not yet been contacted by the district attorney over the latest complaint.
The Massachusetts senator refused to press charges against the summer camp counsellor he claims sexually abused him and would not tell prosecutors his identity.
Senator Brown, who had an improbable victory in the race for Senator Edward Kennedy's seat, claimed a counsellor threatened to kill him if he disclosed the abuse.
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