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Ex-Reform School Student Says He Witnessed Boy's Beating Death
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Don Stratton, a former student at the Florida School for Boys, with a photo of some of his classmates
 As authorities began investigating unmarked graves near a reform school where boys were brutally abused in the 1950s and '60s, one former student remembered the horrors that happened inside.

Don Stratton, now 63, went to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla., and says he saw the unimaginable at the place known simply as the "White House."

"I witnessed them killing a boy, OK. They beat him to death," Stratton told MyFOXTampaBay.com. "The state of Florida beat him at the White House. And I watched it; I seen it."

He said the school controlled students with fear. Twice a week, the children — ages 9 to 16 — would be taken into a room and beaten. The boys called it "going down," according to MyFOXTampaBay.com.

"They turned the fan on, so you wouldn't hear the screaming. But I could hear the screaming 'cause I was right there," said Stratton, who was beaten three times.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wrote to the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Tuesday, asking authorities to determine the origin of the more than 30 unidentified graves and whether any crimes were committed.

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Officials Probe Unmarked Graves at Florida Reform School The agency said it planned an immediate investigation.

The move comes after a group of former inmates, now in their 60s, asked for an investigation into the graves marked only by white metal crosses — which they believe contain the bodies of boys who were beaten to death. The men say they were severely beaten while they were at the detention center.

Stratton also wants retribution.

"I would like to see the state of Florida take responsibility for what happened when I was 13 years old," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464748,00.html

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Anonymous:
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna as the facility is named today is one of those places CAICA is going after (You can not get your 39 silverpennies by refering some to this place). If you look at their webpage, they have several stories about the youth justice system in Florida. Not very nice readings

http://http://www.caica.org/Two_fired_in_wake_of_abuse_allegations_4-15-07.htm

But is it not normal, that such graves exist at all homes for juveniles just 20-30 years back? If not on the campus then at the local church. You can find all those unmarked graves of children unwanted by the system and their families in every single country.

Here in Denmark we have a number of places where survivors in their 60's opts for investigation.  http://http://www.radiogodhavn.dk/ is one of those organizations.

The video on the frontpage ends with: "To all those Godhavn boys who is not among us any more."

I also believe that we had a post about Sprogoe some months back. A that time it was a Island without connection to the main land where naughty girls were sent to. They often ended up as servants for rich families with their productive organs removed, but some was highjacked by fishermen and they went willingly to be wife of a man they didn't know.

Maybe some noticed the story about Haut de la Garenne in the UK.

It is just sad, but I think that such investigations should go on everywhere, so we can learn of our darkest moments in history. The situation has only improved a little. There is still a long way to go.

Anonymous:
Link to survivor page:
http://www.geocities.com/fsbmarianna/

Anonymous:
TERRORISM, TORTURE, GROSS ABUSE, INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF HORRIFIC PAIN, VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS SYSTEMATIC POLICY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. SYSTEMATIC SADISTIC FLOGGING OF CHILDREN.

The state of Florida had a sadistic policy of exploiting children from lower-income, broken homes, and torturing them to bloody pulp through the use of weighted leather flogging straps. As many as 40, 60, 80, 100, and more lashes were perpetrated against children as young as nine to sixteen.

The immediate results of such ferocious treatment were double vision and partial blindness, with the skin beaten black as coal, and skin torn off leaving flowing blood. Many boys were beaten so violently their underwear became ingrained with their bloodied, injured skin and muscles, and had to be surgically removed at a hospital. The policy consisted in intentional, systematic infliction of extreme, horrific, skin-searing pain equal to pouring boiling water repeatedly over the skin, or pressing a red-hot steel plate to the skin repeatedly, plus the weight of a three pound or four pound leather paddle with a sheet-metal insert slamming down hard against skin and muscle.

Long term results were severely lowered self esteem, lifetimes of anger, physical, emotional, and mental scarring, distrust, frustration, failed marriages, violence, inabilities to bond and express love, and immense psychological problems, among other problems. These children your state spit on were kept in continual states of terror of being savagely, ferociously beaten for the smallest of infractions such as talking about going home, smoking a cigarette, not smiling, using the wrong tone of voice, and talking after lights out.

I was present at many beatings at the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee. Some kids were beaten unconscious. One boy was systematically tortured for several weeks. One young boy was severely beaten at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys at Marianna, became paralyzed, was sent home, and died four days later. Another boy ran away from being tortured at FSB Okeechobee. He was found shot between the eyes. His name was Patrick Timothy Gabriel.
For more detailed information on this topic, you can google this: The White House Boys. Theirs is only part of the story. This is not an advertisement. Nor is this an attempt at selling a book. This is an exposition of state sponsored torture and terrorism by the state of Florida.
 
There were also corruption, incompetence, and exploitation in the city governments of Florida. I, myself, know of examples where known serial-felons in our community who committed several felonies against me were protected by police from arrest and prosecution. Their felonies were never recorded, even after they became common knowledge in the community.

There is a great deal more to these stories than you will ever know. When you read crime statistics of small towns in Florida, you might want to add some points. Many offenses do not make it onto the books, including the crimes committed by your state and their agents.

This story was written by a primary source witness.

Try googling these. The White House Boys. Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee. Torture and murder at Florida reform school. Florida exhumes graves of boys tortured and murdered.

The torture of children by agents of the state was officially outlawed in Florida in 1967. We believe various forms of state-sponsored abuses against children who are vulnerable to such exploitation continue.

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