50 graves discovered at Florida reform school, over 150 dead, 100s more missing by PIRATENEWS

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50 graves discovered at Florida reform school, over 150 dead, 100s more missing

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:15 PM

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Scientists have found 19 previously unknown grave shafts on the grounds of a notorious Florida reform school, suggesting that many more boys died there amid brutal conditions than had previously been known, the researchers said Monday.

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, which was also known as the Florida State Reform School, closed in June 2011 after state investigators and the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division confirmed widespread abuse over many decades.

The state attributed its decision to close the school to budgetary reasons. Yet long before then, the institution had been the target of investigations and lawsuits alleging not only physical and mental abuse but also forced labor, rape and even murder of the young charges sent to its care since it opened in 1900.

The prominent writer Roger Dean Kiser, author of "The White House Boys - An American Tragedy," about the horrors he experienced while incarcerated there in the 1950s as a child, has called the school a "concentration camp for little boys." He wrote that "a devil was hiding behind every tree, every building and even behind every blade of manicured grass."

They're called the White House Boys because much of the abuse occurred in an 11-room building on the school grounds known as the White House, where former students say they were beaten with leather straps. A group of the former students sued the state in 2010, but the case was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.

Previous investigations and records had reported that 31 boys were buried on school grounds, and that most of them died in a fire and an influenza outbreak at the school in the early 1900s. But researchers at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, say they now estimate there are at least 50 grave shafts in the area of the school's cemetery and the surrounding woods. Some graves may have been the final resting place for more than one boy, the researchers said in an interim report released Monday.

Records recovered and examined by the researchers indicate that at least 96 boys and two adults died at the school from 1914 to 1973. Most of boys who were committed to the school and died there were African-American.

But that may be only the tip of the iceberg: The researchers didn't have access to student records after 1960, when such documents became subject to privacy laws. Moreover, researchers couldn't test the entire area because of overgrowth and vegetative conditions, they said.

And more chillingly, there may be other, secret graveyards somewhere on the grounds, given the number of still-unaccounted-for cases and the practice of segregating cemeteries during the first half of the last century, Erin Kimmerle, an assistant professor of anthropology at the university, said on a conference call with reporters. It's highly unlikely that white boys were buried with black boys during those decades, but as yet, the researchers haven't found a previously hidden whites-only cemetery.

"I didn't realize going in how much of a story of civil rights it was," Kimmerle said.

The research team used ground-penetrating radar and other methods to map the school's cemetery and chemically analyzed the soil to identify the number of graves.

"We anticipated finding about 25 to 30 grave shafts," said Christian Wells, an assistant professor of anthropology who led the anthropological work at the site, "but in fact we found a minimum of 50" - all of them on the north side of the campus, called Boot Hill, where African-American boys were segregated.

A full picture of the sheer scale of the abuses remains difficult to paint, because there are significant gaps and discrepancies in the records, "and the cause and manner of death for the majority of cases are unknown," the report said.

"Many questions persist about who is buried at the school and the circumstances surrounding their deaths," the report said. But Kimmerle said the team had determined that at least 20 boys died within the first three months of having been remanded to the school's custody - probably because they were unable to cope with the crowding and the conditions - and that burial locations were unspecified for nearly three times more African-American boys than for white boys. NBC News

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/277388.html

1000s of kids are still missing from Florida "reform" agencies...

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:20 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Heard about this yesterday, and was wondering when it'd show up here.

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Records recovered and examined by the researchers indicate that at least 96 boys and two adults died at the school from 1914 to 1973. Most of boys who were committed to the school and died there were African-American.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:23 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Said it before, and I'll say it again - draw a circle 5 miles wide around ANY former hellcamp, and you will find unmarked graves within.

There's at least three other known sites, one in Jamaica, in the Dominican Republic and in Tecate, Mexico.. but nobody wants to talk about those cause some of the jackasses partially responsible are still active in politics.

And... much as it grates on me to agree with PN about that situation, according to corroborated testimony, if that research team swept a certain "Grove", they would almost certainly find much the same, and crossreffing with those "missing/escaped" from Boystown would likely identify some of them.

Most horrifying here is that this was kind of an open-secret for more than fifty years, and it took till 2011 to get Dozier closed down as most of the victims were minors and thus no one gave a damn and they lacked the legal and civil rights protections that adults do.

I've posted partial casualty lists regarding the Hellcamps before - were one to include the unknowns, the missing, and those just "dissappeared", those casualty figures would triple, at the very least.

-Frem

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Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:21 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Said it before, and I'll say it again - draw a circle 5 miles wide around ANY former hellcamp, and you will find unmarked graves within.

There's at least three other known sites, one in Jamaica, in the Dominican Republic and in Tecate, Mexico.. but nobody wants to talk about those cause some of the jackasses partially responsible are still active in politics.

And... much as it grates on me to agree with PN about that situation, according to corroborated testimony, if that research team swept a certain "Grove", they would almost certainly find much the same, and crossreffing with those "missing/escaped" from Boystown would likely identify some of them.

Most horrifying here is that this was kind of an open-secret for more than fifty years, and it took till 2011 to get Dozier closed down as most of the victims were minors and thus no one gave a damn and they lacked the legal and civil rights protections that adults do.

I've posted partial casualty lists regarding the Hellcamps before - were one to include the unknowns, the missing, and those just "dissappeared", those casualty figures would triple, at the very least.

-Frem

Yes, it's only a matter of time before Bohemian Grove gets what's coming to it.

The pigs are still arresting anyone who dares go near that Church of Satan.

http://www.infowars.com/vanity-fair-editor-arrested-at-bohemian-grove/

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Saturday, December 15, 2012 5:41 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Saw the article and thought of you, Frem. Good to know there are people like you looking out for lost children.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:19 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

^ what signy said.

What a disgrace.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012 5:43 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Thanks...

It really upsets me just how damn uncooperative NCMEC is about all this though.
I think I told you what /nulls are, and how they turn a blind eye to abuses of this nature, but in all honest truth that isn't always a bad thing.

I've run across many a case of "Missing" where the "Parent" in question just wants their sextoy or punching bag back, and have directly opposed the so-called forces of justice in such events previously.

So I don't have a lot of respect for the official side of things, although there is improvement over time on that front (they now at least check to see if there's a history of CPS findings, but CPS is so hit or miss lax/rabid that it's far from perfect even so) it's torturously slow, alas.

There *IS* a "railroad" for the kids that bail abusive parents or these places, but for every one that makes it into that pipeline, many others fall to predators or worse - currently untangling a deep mess in PA that is only distantly related to the whole Luzerne County and Youth Sports messes, but it's too ugly for the media to wanna touch.

-Frem

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