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KID NATION HITS YOUR TV TONIGHT _ The most controversial show of the Fall TV Season hits your television tonight. CBS' Kid Nation will feature forty children, aged 8 to 15, living on their own at the Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, a privately owned town built on the ruins of Bonanza City, New Mexico, eight miles south of Santa Fe. In the show, the children try to create a functioning society in the town, including setting up a government system, with minimal adult help and supervision. At the end of each episode, an elected council of kids awards the "Gold Star," worth $20,000, to a fellow participant. (Participants were paid $5,000 for their involvement in the shows taping.
... Four children needed medical attention after drinking bleach that had been left in an unmarked soda bottle, a girl sprained her arm, becoming one of two children to visit a local emergency room, and an 11-year-old girl who was cooking burned her face with splattered grease. That child's mother filed a complaint in June calling for an investigation into "abusive acts to minors and possible violations of child labor laws." The claim was investigated by Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, which found no criminal wrongdoing doing on the part of the production company.
