A teen, who was sent to a rehabilitation camp in China to cure his internet addiction was beaten to death by his trainers.

While this is considered a cure for Internet addiction, it was not what the parents of Deng Senshan, 16, had in mind when they sent him to the camp. The three supervisors who allegedly beat him to death have been arrested.

A police officer in Nanning, Guangxi region said that he was investigating a case where a high school student was beaten to death by his camp supervisors. The case is still under investigation. Deng Fei paid €1000 to give his son a month's training at the Guangxi Qihuang Survival Training Camp. Instead, he said, the boy was put in solitary confinement shortly after his arrival and then beaten to death by his trainers who scolded him for running too slowly.

China thinks that it has more than 10 million internet addicts in the country. But there is controversy over the treatments for internet addiction and how it is diagnosed. The health ministry last month banned the use of electroshock therapy to treat internet addiction. Now there might be a call to ban being beaten to death as a cure also.