These are the women an indictment names responsible for the drowning of a 5-year-old boy

ATLANTA - Benjamin ‘Kamau’ Hosch, III was attending Camp Cricket at the Cochran Mill Nature Center in Chattahoochee Hills in the summer of 2017.

The camp decided to take the children to a state park. That’s the last place Benjamin would be seen alive.

The 5-year-old was missing for a whole 45 minutes before anyone realized he was gone. When police arrived to the scene and searched for him, they found his body in a pond. Benjamin had drowned.

Now, two people are indicted for his murder.

A Grand Jury indicted both the president of the board of directors who oversaw the nature center where the child attended Camp Cricket and a camp director, who was there when Hosch actually drowned.

The board president of the center, Maribeth Wansley, has been charged with one misdemeanor of reckless conduct for failing to operate an early care and education program without a license issued by the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning. That is a violation of state law.

The camp director, Terri Clark, who was in charge of watching Benjamin has been charged with reckless conduct and involuntary manslaughter, according to an indictment released by Fulton County Superior Court.

The indictment claims that Clark unintentionally caused the 5-year-old's death after failing to keep him in her "line of sight" while the boy was close to "an open and obvious pool of water," what the indictment called a disregard of the "standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise" in the same situation.

After the indictment, Hosch's parents told 11Alive they were pleased with what they called the "first steps towards justice" for their son.

"I feel like the Grand Jury, and the community, has felt our pain and spoken with their return of the indictments," Hosch's father said. "I don't know that I'm happy, but we have fought for this and had patience with the process, and it seems like the process is moving on."

After Benjamin’s drowning incident, it was also discovered the camp was not licensed, according to The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.

“Camp Cricket Summer Day Camp at Cochran Mill Park is an unlicensed program that was unknown to the State of Georgia until the reporting of this incident today. We are currently investigating this incident. Georgia law allows for situations where a child care service can be exempt from state licensing requirements based on the ages of children, duration of the program, hours of operation, specific activities, or where services are offered free of charge. It appears that Camp Cricket was neither licensed nor had it applied for and received exempt status from the state. Due to the pending investigation, that is all the information I have at this time.”

The Cochran Mill Nature Center has released a statement regarding the incident:

“The Board, Staff and Volunteers of the Cochran Mill Nature Center are heartbroken and distraught over this tragedy.

On Friday, July 21, a group of 13 children attended day camp at Cochran Mill Nature Center. This small group of children, supervised by 4 adults, walked down a nearby trail for a lunch outing. Following lunch, the children were allowed to splash in a shallow adjacent creek. When the group gathered to leave the creek, the adults realized that one child was missing. The child was found a short distance away in a pool of water in an area that had not been visited by the group. CPR was administered and the child was transported by EMS to the hospital.

Cochran Mill Nature Center has hosted summer camps and other outings for children of all ages for 23 years. The camps focus is on nature and the outdoors. Thousands of children have attended the camps over the years without incident except for minor scrapes, bumps and bruises. In 2016, over 15,000 children visited.

Cochran Mill is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help injured wild animals and provide educational tours and camps for children.”

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