Physician and lawyer parents: We sent our child here and he came home repeating this, ""Does your mommy or daddy hit you?"" Our 3 year old asked us what it meant over and over. It was difficult to hide the alarmed looks that washed over our faces at dinner time after the second day of Kinder Camp. We asked our son who said that to him and he told us his teacher with the red hair. We were left with no choice but to explain the topic of abuse to our innocent little one since brushing the matter off at that point would have eroded trust. It scared our son badly that such a thing as abuse exists. He should not have had to learn that it does at such a young age. That 2nd day of camp, my son's book bag label was peeled off and stuck to his bare back. He cried when I later had to slowly peel it off, and his fine back hairs got pulled out along with it. I asked my son who did this to him. He said his teacher. I asked which one and he said he didn't know. We are contacting national YMCA organization leaders if they have any such figure heads. Upon letting a YMCA Kinder Camp and Youth program directors know that our son had been interrogated behind closed boys locker room doors at camp by a teenaged camp helper, they refused to fire the teenager involved even after they confirmed what had taken place and instead called in risk management. We were told that it was our problem if we could not trust them after such a huge breach of the parental trust placed in them, and we were told it was our son's last day at camp. We were also told it is their new policy that patents cannot watch their kids from the hall because it makes the staff uncomfortable...at least not if that parent is a lawyer wanting to see what was going on for herself to insure staff did not further traumatize her son. Our entire family is better off not being subjected to YMCA children's programs since our entire family was distressed by what they did to our 3 year old. I attempted to be forgiving, just not blind, deaf, and dumb as required. The Cary YMCA very obviously do not know that trust is earned, not owed. Also, look up news articles online. Staff at this Cary YMCA have been convicted of child sexual predator related crimes...oh, but they trust their staff blindly and all parents should too! If a parent does not blindly trust them, that parent can get out. I'll post audio of staffers recorded on my phone and come back to reviews to post the site to find it on. Personally, I can do better by my child than to try to send him here monitored. What are they hiding that they don't want parents to see? Sky's the limit apparently.\r
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Our son has no familiar faces should we send him to a new camp to be new for the last few weeks of summer, and he lived through a week of diarrhea after his experience with this terrible venue with staffers without remorse who thanks to abuse prevention training, are apparently quick to interrogate kids as to whether they are abused. Parents ask your kids if they were interrogated. Our almost 4 year d said camp counselors asked lots of kids. Our mistake to bring our child here. We won't make it again. The Cary YMCA staffers have disrespected every member of our family with their injurious actions, and even more so with the manner in which they chose to handle the cruelty they inflicted. We are amazed this place is somehow still open to the unsuspecting public given all they fail to disclose and the hide your skeletons instead of warning parents themselves. Horrific treatment of our child and us as parents at this YMCA staff...truly a nightmare.
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