The Centers For Disease Control Study Links Camp Lejeune Tap Water To Childhood Cancer

Marines have not been able to seek justice for the wrongful death of their children until the Camp Lejeune Justice Act passes.

Monday, August 8, 2022 - The Marine Corp knew that the Camp Lejeune Marine Base drinking water was being contaminated with toxic chemicals from improper and illegal waste disposal starting as early as 1953 according to the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. Marines, their families, civilian employees, and their family members may file lawsuits seeking just compensation for their injuries and in some cases wrongful death. The Act gives Marines the ability to file a Camp Lejeune Justice Act claim seeking lump-sum monetary damage. Studies indicate that women who were pregnant and lived and/or worked on the base from 1953 to 1987 experienced an increased risk of birth defects and childhood cancers. One incident of childhood cancer that took the life of a girl before her tenth birthday was highlighted in an ABC News article published in 2004. Marines have not been able to seek justice for the wrongful death of their children until the Camp Lejeune Justice Act passes. Lawmakers have been aware of the increased incidences of childhood leukemia leading to early death for children of Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune for more than 20 years but until now have been stymied in their efforts at remuneration. Camp Lejeune cancer lawsuits seek reimbursement for lost wages, any out-of-pocket medical expenses, and punitive damages of ten or more times that amount. Marine Corp leadership will be held accountable for fraudulently covering up and failing to warn residents of the drinking water contamination.

According to one Marine, Retired U.S. Marine Sgt. Jerry Ensminger whose young daughter was stricken with leukemia and died, the family went through hell right along with the suffering of the child. "Janey went through hell, and I went with her, and everybody who loved her went with her," Ensminger said. The retired officer is convinced that his daughter's leukemia was caused by toxic chemicals in the drinking water at his former Marine base in Camp Lejeune, N.C. And he blames Marine officials. "These people knew about these contaminants in the drinking water for over a year before Janie was diagnosed with leukemia," Ensminger said. "And they said nothing," ABC News reported. Groundwater contamination that directly leads to a mother's DNA damage and childhood leukemia is well-documented in the media. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)'s Agency for Toxic Substance & Disease Registry recently published a study that links water contamination on the Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina to an increase in birth defects, stillbirths, and cases of childhood cancer. In the study, 106 cases of childhood birth defects and cancer out of about 12,000 individuals were reported. It is estimated that millions of individuals passed through the Camp Lejeune Marine Base during the period in question 1953-1987. Extrapolating the rate of cancer could produce tens of thousands of cases of cancer directly caused by drinking the local tap water.

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