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There is troubling brewing in Bonanza City, New Mexico thanks to a brand new CBS reality show called “Kid Nation. ” 40 children aged 8 to 15 were dropped off in what had become an abandoned ghost town with “no parents and no rules“, as explained by Executive Producer, Tom Forman. For 40 days the children cooked their own meals, cleaned their own outhouses, formed a government and ran their own businesses, all without adult intervention or participation. When “Access Hollywood” questioned Forman back in May about the show’s controversial premise he assured us that off-screen adult supervision was never far away. Now comes word that something may have gone wrong. At least one parent of a contestant wrote a letter of complaint to New Mexico state officials after the show finished shooting, claiming the experience bordered on abuse and neglect. Several children required medical attention after drinking bleach that had been left in an unmarked soda bottle while one 11-year-old girl burned her face with splattered grease while cooking. Questions are also now being raised about whether or not they violated child labor laws as it’s been reported that many of the children were working from sun up to past sun down...
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