Teen dies from brutal injuries after spending just two days in internet addiction boot camp

News24xx.com -  China's infamous internet addiction boot camps are under fire once again after one teenager checked into a camp earlier this month, and dead two days later.

Liu Dongmei said that her son, 18-year-old Li Ao, was a nice boy who simply had become hopelessly addicted to the internet, making him lose interest in everything else.

Hoping to cure her son of his addiction, Liu discovered an internet addiction treatment center in Anhui's Fuyang city which boasted of successfully treating net-obsessed teens through a combination of physical training and psychological counseling.

The woman dropped her son off at the center on August 3rd 2017. The plan was for him to stay at the center for 180 days at a total cost of 22,800 yuan or about IDR 45,6 million.

However, just two days later, they received a call from the camp, informing them that Li had been rushed to the hospital with serious injuries where he died a short time later.

In an interview with a local news station, Liu described seeing her dead child's body in the hospital morgue, covered in scars and bruises. Doctors said that he had suffered at least 20 injuries.

"My son's body was completely covered with scars, from top to toe... When I sent my son to the center he was still fine, how could he have died within 48 hours?" she said through tears.

While the exact cause of Li's death is unknown, the center's director and four staff members have been detained by police while investigations into the facility are carried out, the BBC reports.