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	13 Now Allege Sex Abuse at Cape Camp, Attorney Says Boston Channel April 12, 2011 http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/27517860/detail.html A Boston attorney charged a Cape Cod Christian camp with covering up allegations of sexual abuse that he likened to the Catholic Church's handling of sexual abuse by priests. Mitchell Garabedian said a total of 13 people – 11 men and two women – have contacted him claiming they were abused by staff members at Camp Good News in Sandwich. Garabedian said the alleged sexual assaults took place in the 1970s and 1980s and that some of his clients claim they were molested by Charles Devita, a camp employee who killed himself last week after a criminal investigation was begun. "Camp officials will tell their side of the story in an appropriate forum, rather than addressing these types of allegations in the media," the camp said in a statement Tuesday. These new allegations of abuse began to surface after Sen. Scott Brown wrote that he was sexually abused while attending a summer camp on Cape Cod in 1959. Brown has never identified Camp Good News as the camp he attended, but the owners of the camp have apologized to him and said he was a camper there. The camp announced last week that they would not open this summer. The decision came after they lost accreditation. "It is clear that we must review every aspect of our operations before reopening,'' the camp said in a statement on Friday. "We take the allegations extremely seriously and want to express deep remorse for anything that may have occurred at the camp which may have hurt anyone.''
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