Christian Camp

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Friday morning, Nueces County authorities arrested both the camp director and one camp employee in San Antonio. His name is Charles Eugene Flowers. According to a Web site for the Christian boot camp, or CBC, he spent 12 years in the Air Force before he started the boot camp up in 1995.

All the while, Flowers also served as the youth pastor of Faith Outreach International Church in San Antonio.

Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt were being booked into the Nueces County Jail, facing charges of aggravated assault.

"I don't want to be arrested, like the next man doesn't want to be arrested," Pastor Flowers said. "But, there's a purpose in everything. So we're just going to march that purpose on out."

Those were the words of Flowers, just minutes before Nueces County detectives took him into custody Friday morning in San Antonio.

Flowers is accused of causing injuries to a 15-year-old girl, who attended his Christian Boot Camp in Banquete last month.

According to his arrest affidavit, Flowers, along with Bassitt, were leading a group run at the camp, when the alleged victim fell behind.

Investigators said Flowers and Bassitt tied the victim up to the back of a van and dragged her down a dirt path - accusations Flowers said he would not address.

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Abstinence programs fail to cut HIV risk, or Pregnancy Rates

University of Oxford researchers reviewed 13 trials involving more than 15,000 U.S. youths to assess the effects of abstinence-only programs by measuring self-reported biological and behavioral outcomes such as sexually transmitted infection, pregnancy, frequency of unprotected sex, number of partners and sexual initiation.

Compared with various controls, no abstinence-only program had a beneficial effect on incidence of unprotected vaginal sex, number of partners, condom use, sexual initiation, incidence of pregnancy or incidence of sexually transmitted infection, finds a review published in the British Medical Journal.

The results also suggest that abstinence-only programs did not increase primary abstinence or secondary abstinence -- decreased incidence and frequency of recent sex, the researchers say.

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