Elizabeth Phillips

There's a text I got of a cabin floating down the river with looked like 50 kids in it.

Whoa.

Yeah.

And then it quickly escalated from Lila's missing to Lila's dead.

And all these girls are missing.

And so, like, I'm with my three kids and my family, and we, like, are sitting at the 4th of July parade as all of this is, like, coming through on my phone.

And I'm like, oh, no, I need to reach out to a Navy SEAL friend I know that's based in Austin, see if they're on it.

Like, what is going on?

And, you know, fast forward, 27 girls died at Camp Mystic during the flash floods in the Hill Country on July 4th.

And it was completely preventable.

So then I know this because I'm camp negligence girl at this point from everything I've uncovered about Kanakuk and the camp industry.

The American Camps Association has been around for 115 years, and they're the main accreditation entity for the industry.

There are also some smaller camp organizations that lobby for mostly exemptions and waivers, not child protection.

So my head immediately goes to, and it's horrible to say this, but I just know what I know, and like, these girls aren't missing, they're dead.

And it's not, it's the camp's fault and it's negligence.

Like, just, you know, the pattern is there.

I've been in touch with a dad from California whose daughter drowned at a day camp because the American Red Cross was fraudulently accrediting lifeguards.

That came out in a Washington Post article.

There's just, at every turn, the camp industry has had failures, and they've had 115 years to do better.

But here we are with 19 suicides affiliated with the Keanukuk situation.