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CBS Mistreated Child Actors on Set of New "Kid Nation" Reality Show

nytimes.com — After the production ended in mid-May, the parent of one child complained to state officials that the children's treatment bordered on abuse. Four children received medical treatment for accidentally drinking bleach, one child was burned on her face with hot grease while cooking, and most of the children were required to work 14 hours per day.

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  • D3koy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50In their defense it was in the fridge, marked "Probably not Milk, but only one way to find out"
  • tynansanger, on 10/10/2007, -9/+56Kill the producers! Cut their throats! Spill their blood!
  • Aviatrixt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48I can't wait to see the pig's head on a stick.
  • openthink, on 10/10/2007, -7/+52so the kids were drinking bleach & getting hot grease all over their faces...no big deal. worst, most laughable, thing of this is cbs tries to defend "abuse" by saying, hey, but the kids weren't full-time employees? can't make that kind of stuff up. before end of day they'll be taking more responsibility (like removing the bleach bottles from the kids' buffet?)
    seriously, have worked with some of these shows....kids (all b-talent) are treated like crap. of course, another big question: why do their parents let them do this? for$5k? it only takes minutes of research to learn the kids are going to be running around w/little supervision, are going to be associating with a lot of hollywood fringe low-lifes, etc. if you want your kids "protected" don't send them to a garbage reality tv show--duh!
  • ianweir, on 10/10/2007, -3/+34What I fail to understand is how the children, who were on their own running their own community, could be 'required' to work 14-hour days. If they were on their own at the level implied, any such requirements would be imposed by the children themselves, and I highly doubt that the children would be allowed to enforce such requirements, no matter how 'hands-off' the producers of the show were.

    On another note, how on earth do you not notice that what you're about to drink is bleach? Any kid that stupid shouldn't be left home alone, nevermind dropped off in a ghost town to try and survive with other children.
  • ne0g, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27wait a second, kids got hurt on a show that mimics the concept of Lord of the Flies? we could have never seen this coming!
    seriously folks, the only people who would subject their children to something that looks torturous even in a CBS powerpoint (for five thousand dollars) are the only people (on this earth) who could be surprised when it ends badly
  • gcnaddict, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25I saw the ads for the show during Power of 10 tonight and I asked myself if the show was legal.

    I guess not.
  • brianbb98, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Now tell me... who thought this would be a good idea? Good TV? Yes. But I can think of a million bad things to happen..
  • ne0g, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTJ6GoBuCU (i almost forgot about that)
  • desmondregan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20thats ***** up, drinking bleach? why would there be bleach in a ghost-town?
  • 42Vindictive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Dugg for Lord of the Flies reference.
  • smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Who the hell drank the bleach?!
  • saegiru, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15In the words of Nelson Muntz: "HAAA HAAA!"
  • ballsanya, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15the parent post would not have been dugg down if people here actually read classic literature. It was actually pretty clever.
  • ldmorris426, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16The show is a lawsuit waiting to happen
  • desmondregan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16I'm definitely watching this series in the fall.
  • coffeebot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11when Napoleon tasted bleach in the milk, he got a medal. these kids deserve a medal
  • Mothrog, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11"Where do they find these kids?"

    Well, you do have to consider that they found parents willing to ship their 8 year old off to be on a TV show where they'll be unsupervised. Those parents, and hence their children, probably aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
  • brimtoast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"The parents of a 14-year-old boy, DK of Chicago, said Tuesday that their son was not seriously hurt and did not want to return home when he got sick from drinking bleach. DK was mixing drinks and picked up the wrong bottle, which was unmarked. Three other children sipped the liquid to try to determine what was making him sick, but they spit it out immediately. (CBS did not release participants' last names, nor those of their parents, to protect the children.)"

    From http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-kidnationweb22aug22,0,3170206.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
  • inigomntoya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"Mixing drinks"?! Like HI-C and kool-aid? Or Bloody Mary's and screwdrivers?
  • sigintop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Yeah, but at 8 years old don't you know NOT to drink bleach? Where do they find these kids?
  • shyner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Here's a good idea.. don't put your ***** kids in a ghost town with other kids and minimal supervision! Seriously, you should have to take a parenting test before you procreate.
  • VeniceCA, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Kid Digg Nation scheduled for next season. Kids run social media site, drink bleach, and post only Nintendo related topics.
  • RyeBrye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Maybe the parents should be prosecuted for child abuse for subjecting the kids to a reality show in the first place.
  • 0ceanic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5appearently, one parent did it for the potential law suits.
    "now jimmy, first time you see anything to clean the bathrooms, rip off the lable, drink it, and say it wasnt labled."

    though, shouldnt the entire town be child proof?
  • Schwab, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Oh yeah, now the parents that whored their kids out to yet another ***** reality show are complaining. Geez, you have to love us here in America.
  • glamdr1ng, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I can guarantee kids back in the day(myself included) did things much worse than these kids did in some silly 'ghost town'. Over-protective parents and whiny kids in my opinion. Fact: kids are dumb, kids do silly things. Might as well video tape and make money off it. Good Lord, I wish I had video of some stunts I did. Send that off to AFV and get $10k.
  • GoatMonkey2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If it doesn't have Mr. Yuck on it, it must be OK to drink.
  • calebhawk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8thats awesome, cant wait to watch it
  • Sairynn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6The world would be a pretty boring place if no one ever did stupid *****.
  • bigdumbanimal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6*knock knock*
    [bleach kid] "Who's there?"
    [Charles] LOL "It's Darwin!"
  • Eldorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If the parents win a lawsuit against CBS for this... then the parents should in turn be jailed for child abuse in knowingly letting CBS do this to their kids.
  • fanclerks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's like every show on Spike.
  • MindStalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They weren't "working" 14-hour days. But by legal laws, any amount of time "on-set" is considered work. These kids were on-set whenever they weren't asleep. Therefor they were "working" all day.
  • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Hi, I'm Chris Hanson.

    Why don't you have a seat?
  • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Haha, Digg threads are valuable now?
  • GunsGermsSteel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"The show, "Kid Nation," which is scheduled to premiere on CBS on Sept. 19, is a reality show whose premise is to take 40 children, ages 8 to 15, and place them in a "ghost town" in New Mexico to see if they can build a working society without the help of adults."

    I guess the answer was "No. No they could not."
  • bobbyi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3To be fair, most adults can't really take care of themselves either.
  • chubbybubba, on 10/10/2007, -9/+12These reality shows keep trying to get more and more outrageous. Just a matter of time before they start showing executions.
  • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4So the other two kids spit it out, but this asshat drank it? Sounds like the problem lies somewhere between conception of the child and the point at which "DK" enrolled in this "show"...

    I just hope someday I can sue someone else of the stupidity of my own kid.

    Oh, wait. No i don't I have class.

    That, and my kid wouldn't be ***** stupid enough to drink bleack marked or unmarked.

    What kills me is he didnt even smell it. if he would have his nose would have burned and this wouldn't have happened
  • mukiex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4All this Bleach and not a single kid attains bankai?! What a rip.
  • Rob223, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Nobody. Did you even READ the article?
  • mrminty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And MTV.
  • mrminty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Hmmm... Seems I read something saying that the whole point of this show is that there was no parental supervison.
    Dumbass.
  • kriminalintent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How can a whole company abuse a kid? Headline should say producers.
  • chroto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4i guess the producers never read lord of the flies
  • Monk22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2if your getting paid for it, its work.
  • JAXXXON, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Hahahaha, definitely going to watch this show.
  • Onyxblaze, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2TV is not even worth watching these days. I was watching Killpoint on spike today. I had 3 minutes of commercials every 5 minutes. That was two scenes from the show per five commercials, and it was the same commercials over and over again. Give me a break.
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