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To: JEB who wrote (212771)	12/25/2001 10:42:25 PM
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Published Friday, August 17, 2001 Boy's family sues Seacamp for $10 million BY JENNIFER BABSON jbabson@herald.com KEY LARGO -- The family of a 14-year-old New Jersey boy filed a $10 million civil suit Thursday against Big Pine's Seacamp Association Inc., a marine sciences camp where convicted child pornographer Dieter Charles Vogt allegedly molested and took explicit photographs of the youngster. Vogt, 31, was sentenced last week to 65 years in federal prison without parole. His attorneys are expected to appeal the sentence. Vogt was convicted in April on federal charges of possessing, producing, transporting and transmitting child pornography across state lines and over the Internet. Many of the boys in the photographs attended Seacamp, where the South African native was a counselor for five consecutive summers. Vogt also faces child molestation charges in Monroe County state court as well as in Kansas, Massachusetts and South Africa. Thursday's civil suit is one of many expected to be filed in the coming months on behalf of boys who attended Seacamp with Vogt. Referred to only as ``M.T.D.'' in court documents, the boy at the center of the lawsuit attended Seacamp in 1999 and 2000. The suit alleges that M.T.D. was ``sexually molested'' and photographed by Vogt while enrolled at the overnight camp, and suffered physical and psychological harm as a result. The suit contends that Seacamp was ``negligent'' in its hiring and supervision of Vogt and ``should have detected'' that Vogt was molesting boys. It also says that camp officials and supervisors failed to ``investigate'' the sleeping and living conditions inside Vogt's cabin -- where prosecutors say he took the pornographic pictures. Lawyers for the boy also allege that Vogt ``chemically intoxicated'' and ``drugged'' M.T.D. before molesting him and taking photographs, something the government alluded to during its prosecution of Vogt, but never charged him with. Tom Preston, a crisis management consultant retained by Seacamp, declined to comment on the suit. An attorney for Vogt also refused comment. miami.com