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Elizabeth Phillips
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Key ideas from Elizabeth Phillips
- Camp Canakook, a 100-year-old Christian camp in Missouri, has over 75 affiliated sexual predators with allegations dating from 1958 to present
- Pete Newman, former Canakook director, received three life sentences for abusing an estimated hundreds to thousands of children across multiple states
- Elizabeth's brother Trey died by suicide in 2019 after being silenced by a restrictive NDA following his civil settlement with Canakook
- Trey's Law, passed in Texas and Missouri in 2025, voids all NDAs in child sexual abuse cases, freeing victims to speak publicly
- 27 girls aged 8-10 died at Camp Mystic in Texas flash floods on July 4th, 2025, leading to the Heavens 27 Camp Safety Act
- 15 states don't require criminal background checks for summer camp staff, and 9 states don't require day camps to be licensed
- Canakook generated $380 million in revenue with $25 million annually flowing to Haiti through questionable charitable operations
- The camp industry represents a $70 billion market with 26 million children attending camps annually across America