Millionaire allows teen son to marry housekeeper's daughter, avoid school

[Cal Carpenter]

54. I realize

that the rich are different, believe me. But the Orlando paper took a couple paragraphs from a complicated story and made it about the dad's money and the sham marriage. Those details are what makes this particular case news, unfortunately. The reality is that kids get sent to these places all the time, often by the Florida court system (usually to in-state facilities). They are physically and emotionally abused. They sometimes die. This is not an exaggeration. I know more about this than I want to, and there is tons of info all over the net about it if you are really interested in learning more. Google boot camp survivors or something like that and the trail to info will be clear.

It *is* ultimately about money, of course, but not the father's. It is about these for-profit hellholes, a history of judges getting kickbacks, and a legal system that generally screws the people, and in this case, even a rich kid.