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local man who rented horses and carriages, introduced them to Dave
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committed on children less than 11 years old. Stolz had worked at Brant Lake Camp for 33 years. Several months before the arrest, a camp counselor at Brant Lake Camp emailed the camp's director Richie
Gersten to alert him about inappropriate behavior by Stoltz, but Gersten took no action afterward.
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Gersten began as a camper, then worked as a counselor, and then became a group head. He was promoted to assistant director in 1946. Gersten became a partner of the camp in 1948. Gerstenzang's daughter Karen Meltzer started worked as a director of Brant Lake Camp in 1962.
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Brant Lake Camp was founded in 1916 and incorporated on March 24, 1917, by Robert B. Gerstenzang, Joseph E. Eberly, and Jack F. Malloy. The three men were physical education teachers and had been camp counselors at Camp
Paradox, and they had wanted to create their own summer camp. Fred Parker, a
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campers as young as 8 years old in the camp's showers, bunks, and his own room. The district attorney had 400 pages of evidence. Stoltz pled not guilty to the charges.
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