SANDWICH, Mass. — Police in Massachusetts were investigating a possible suicide by gunshot Wednesday at Camp Good News in Sandwich, where Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and at least one other person say they were molested as children.
According to the Boston Herald, the 43-year-old deceased man left notes saying he was “tired of being accused” and telling loved ones goodbye.
The man, who was unidentified, was found in his car just outside the camp’s property.
“Camp Good News has been notified about a body being found,” the camp said in a statement. “We are awaiting identification from the medical examiner before commenting.”
Local and state police descended on the camp earlier Wednesday.
A hearse arrived at the camp at about 11:40am local time and left about 15 minutes later. An ambulance and a flatbed truck carrying a pickup truck were also seen leaving the property.
Sandwich police initially prevented access by the news media to the camp, but police departed by approximately 11:00am.
The Cape Cod Times reported earlier Wednesday that a camp official said an employee of Camp Good News who is being investigated for molesting a child there 26 years ago will remain on the job, at least for now.
The Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office this week launched an investigation into an allegation that a former 10-year-old camper was repeatedly molested at Camp Good News by an employee who still works there, said Boston-based attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents the camper, now a 36-year-old man.
The alleged abuse occurred around 1985, Garabedian said. He said he notified the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office about the allegations Monday, and by Tuesday morning an investigator from the Massachusetts State Police had contacted him.
Camp Good News came under scrutiny in February, when Brown released a memoir, “Against All Odds,” in which he said a counselor at a Christian summer camp on Cape Cod molested him in the 1970s. Camp Good News officials identified their camp as one attended by Brown and apologized for anything that had happened on their campus.
The employee now under investigation is not the same abuser Brown described, sources close to the latest investigation said.
Brown has said he did not want to pursue a criminal case.
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