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 A famed Virginia summer camp “may never open” again in the wake of lawsuits alleging rampant sexual abuse of teenage girls who attended, according to the board chair of the group that runs the camp. “It was closed in 2020, it’s closed this year. It may never open,” said Lora Little, the chair of the board of the Association of Research and Enlightenment, A.R.E., in an interview on the program Brian Ross Investigates on the Law&Crime Network. It was the Virginia-based group’s first extensive public reaction to the lawsuit filed last month on behalf of former campers who al...

It’s advertised as a “special place” where children and adults of all ages can “experience a different kind of vacation.” Perched in the mountains of Southwest Virginia at Rural Retreat, A.R.E. Camp is where campers have been flocking to for decades to hike, swim, meditate, eat meals made from the organic vegetable garden, and sing around a campfire. It’s also where at least eight women say they were sexually assaulted and harassed when they were teenager campers, according to two lawsuits filed Wednesday in Virginia Beach Circuit Court. The men who abused them w...

Eight women allege sexual abuse at Virginia summer camp DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer April 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Association for Research and Enlightenment describes itself as a 90-year-old organization for people to explore meditation, holistic health and the meaning of life. But eight women who filed lawsuits against the organization Wednesday allege they were sexually harassed, abused or raped as children while attending its rural Virginia summer camp. In the lawsuits, filed in state court in Virginia Beach, where the organization is headquarte...

Share The Association for Research and Enlightenment, a nonprofit organization founded in 1931, describes itself as an organization for people to explore meditation, holistic health and the meaning of life.   In the lawsuits, filed in state court in Virginia Beach, where the organization is headquartered, the women describe what they said was a decadeslong camp culture that let adult male staffers sexually abuse young female campers with impunity. During a virtual news conference, four of the women described the alleged abuse and a cult-like atmosphere at the camp, where they said they were...

It’s advertised as a “special place” where children and adults of all ages can “experience a different kind of vacation.” Perched in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia, A.R.E. Camp is