Hundreds of boys suffered abuse and neglect at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in the Florida panhandle that closed in 2011. "They were as young as 5, as old as 20, and they needed to be reformed."

Related to PG due to the example of ongoing institutionalized child abuse, physical, sexual (whether by staff or other students). We are piecing together the extent and history of the national epidemic of pedophilia, covered up by those in power time and again and the Dozier School should be included in the litany of examples of cover-up to protect influential people or the reputations of organizations, whether governmental, religious, fraternal or otherwise. There are questions here as to whether any of the boys were victims of trafficking or sexual sadistic murder, since in as far as some of the boys, no one knows what happened to them. The child trafficking rings and child porn rings were happening at the same time, it's not a stretch to assume that with that many beatings, someone might be selling photos to members of a SM Pedo underground. One could also speculate that sexual favors could be solicited for favors, like not getting beaten, or that some kids might be 'released' early in exchange for such favors.

09.06.13 4:45 AM ET

After the bone fragments have been dug up on the property of the notorious Florida reform school—the apparent remains of “disappeared” young boys—they’ll be shipped to a lab in Texas.

That’s where Arthur Eisenberg and his team at the University of North Texas’s Center for Human Identification will perform DNA analysis. If they succeed, they’ll have played a pivotal role in closing one of the lurid sagas in the history of the Florida panhandle: the mystery of why so many young boys disappeared from the Arthur G. Dozier School.

Investigators believed around 98 boys died at the school between 1914 and 1973

Thirty or so of the bodies were sent back to the parents. Some were buried on the property (some in shallow graves).

Others have no recorded burial information at all. Men who once attended the school have told stories of boys disappearing and dying at the hands of school employees.

“They didn’t even have the decency to mark the location. There is not one headstone where these children were buried. No plot log was ever kept for a graveyard for children."

http://archive.is/qy7nm#selection-973.0-973.58 Note: White crosses were added in 2009 I believe.

Sept 2, 2013

The poorly kept state records cannot account for what happened to 22 children who died at the school. And no one knows who is buried where.

Florida first started looking into the allegations in 2008, after some of the White House Boys -- who had met on the Internet and shared similar stories -- called on then-Gov. Charlie Crist to investigate.

At Crist's request, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched an investigation and its final report in 2009 accounted for 31 boys buried in the cemetery.

The investigation failed to clear up the mystery over what happened to the dozens of other students who died at the school whose bodies have never been accounted for.

FDLE closed the case due to lack of evidence that anyone had died as a result of criminal conduct. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice closed the school in 2011.

Last year, a research team from the University of South Florida, on a humanitarian mission to help identify these bodies for surviving families, used ground-penetrating radar, and found that there are as many as 19 more bodies buried in the surrounding area -- completely unmarked. After clearing the area, the team determined that 49 graves exist.

http://archive.is/WVobX

2017 Legislature Approves Dozier School Apology Bill

http://www.mypanhandle.com/news/legislature-approves-dozier-school-apology-bill-marianna-residents-reflect/687101253

April 17, 2009

Some personal accounts of the abuse. http://archive.is/0T6eE http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/for-their-own-good-a-st-petersburg-times-special-report-on-child-abuse-at/992939

A forum discussing the school, mentions the juvenile detention Green Isle B9oys Ranch and Straight, Inc. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/marianna-fl/TI3KH359DM91Q560G/p2

Green Isle B9oys Ranch

Green Isle Boys Ranch operated in Clermont Florida from 1987-2010 closing amid the cover ups of the rapes of five boys ages 11 to 15 years of age. There are still untold numbers of sex abuse victims from this facility over these years who have not yet reported their abuses. Victims come from all over the state. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/leesburg-fl/T01L6QB857SLKNOPN/green-isle-boys-ranch-victims

Straight, Inc.

For 17 years Melvin Sembler and his wife Betty operated one of the most destructive and world’s largest chain of juvenile rehabilitation programs, Straight, Inc. As many as 50,000 kids were in the Straight program. Straight, Inc. is the biggest violator of human rights and civil liberties that the USA has ever seen. This was torture – there was deliberate degrading and humiliating treatment, sexual abuse, physical beatings, lack of proper food or sanitation, deliberate sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, and lack of medical care. With inhuman conditions of confinement likened to Korean prisoner of war camps and amidst thousands of law suits alleging severe child abuse, the Straight Inc was finally shut down after a US Congressional investigation. ... During his research Wes Fager was able to document 40 suicides of known Straight Inc abuse.

Melvin Sembler was a very successful political campaign fundraiser. People at the highest levels of the US government have endorsed and approved of Straight and its spin off programs including Nancy Reagan, George Bush Sr., Jeb Bush, and George Bush Jr. http://medicalwhistlebloweradvocacynetwork.com/melvin-sembler-s-legacy-of-abusing-children-