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| Subject: 'They put him in a dryer': grave sites found at notorious statist reform school Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:05 am | |
| Anthropologists have found evidence of 98 deaths at a notorious former reform school in Florida which has long faced accusations of abuse, beatings, rape and murder.
The researchers used ground penetrating radar to find at least 50 grave sites at the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys and said there could be more yet to be discovered. Evidence of other deaths was established by using archive records, other historical documents and interviews with relatives.
Many questions persist about who is buried at the school and the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
An investigation four years ago by Florida police that relied on the school's own records had reported that 81 died at the school, of whom 31 were buried on the property at a cemetery marked with white metal crosses.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/they-put-him-in-a-dryer-grave-sites-found-at-notorious-reform-school-20121212-2b8ts.html#ixzz2EopnkW00
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