Florida will exhume remains of 100 children who died at Dozier School for Boys (not a King novel)

[KittyWampus]

This story reads like a horror story.

The children in unmarked graves at a notorious Florida reform school will finally be allowed to tell their stories.

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Researchers from the University of South Florida have identified more than 100 unmarked grave sites on the property of the state-owned school, which was closed in 2011 after decades of allegations that it routinely tortured boys who were sent there, WFLA News reported.

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Many boys who attended Dozier, which was approximately 60 miles west of Tallahassee, simply disappeared, leaving their families without answers about how, or whether, they were killed.

"This decision puts us a step closer to finishing the investigation," U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said in response to Tuesday’s action by the governor and the cabinet. "Nothing can bring these boys back, but I'm hopeful that their families will now get the closure they deserve."

So far, USF researchers have been able to confirm the deaths of 96 children who were sent to the Dozier School between 1914 and 1973.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-exhume-graves-dozier-school-boys-article-1.1419154

[kestrel91316]

1. It's FL, so I suppose it's too much to hope for that they will

look into CRIMINAL CHARGES against the responsible parties.

University researchers? Closure??? SERIOUSLY???? Do they not have prosecutors or grand juries anymore?

[malaise]

2. You know this cruelty took place in several countries across the globe

What they all have in common is that the victims were poor and mostly from minority groups and the other reality is their religious connections.

I hate all religions and all racists.

[snort]

6. Yes.

Religion makes morons. Sometimes violent morons.

[KittyWampus]

3. So much about this leave me with a queasy feeling. It's haunting.

[RebelOne]

4. I have heard about this a couple of years ago.

I thought the bodies had already been exhumed.

[REP]

5. The Wiki on this place is enough to make skin crawl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_School_for_Boys

[tblue]

7. House of Horrors, Abu Ghraib

Geez! I never heard of this. Why did it take so long???

[WinkyDink]

8. But, but, such a conspiracy surely couldn't have occurred. SOMEbody would have talked!

*sarcasm*

[Enthusiast]

9. I have a feeling that this will get ugly. nt

[Judi Lynn]

10. Human remains found in shallow hole at Dozier school

Human remains found in shallow hole at Dozier school
Ben Montgomery, Times Staff Writer 
Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:24pm

MARIANNA — At sunup Saturday, in a clearing surrounded by kudzu-heavy woods on the campus of a brutal reform school, a team of researchers carefully began digging holes around a little clandestine cemetery, hoping the red dirt would give up its secrets.

They were searching for the remains of young wards of the Dozier School for Boys, who died in state custody and were buried without the dignity of a permanent marker.

A few hours after noon, the first human remains were found at the bottom of a shallow hole about 30 yards north of rows of crooked pipe crosses, which were planted in the 1990s based on folklore. The researchers, from the University of South Florida, gathered around the hole to examine a casket handle found near the remains.

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Some Jackson County residents, led mostly by amateur historian Dale Cox, have been upset by the project and have tried to stop it. Cox only recently quit his campaign to halt the exhumations. Local politicians say they're worried the media coverage of the exhumations will reflect poorly on rural Jackson County and on Marianna, "the City of Southern Charm," population 9,000.

More:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/human-remains-found-in-shallow-hole-at-dozier-school/2139448