Remains of 55 found at notorious former Florida reform school

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"For decades, relatives of some boys dispatched to the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys have struggled to find out what became of them after they went missing amid reports of beatings, torture and sexual assaults at the reform school in Marianna, Fla."

"Bones, teeth and other artifacts were recovered for all 55 bodies, Kimmerle said Tuesday."

"So far, DNA has been collected from 11 surviving family members of former Dozier residents. "

"Kiser said he was twice beaten bloody with a leather whip reinforced by a slab of sheet metal. Other boys were beaten so badly that their underwear was pounded into their bare skin. Many were sodomized or forced to perform oral sex on staff members, he said. Boys were beaten for such infractions as spitting, cursing or talking back. Staff members placed bets on who could draw blood first."

"Roger Dean Kiser, now 67, of Brunswick, Ga., told The Times in October that he was sent to Dozier at age 12 in 1959 and stayed for two years."

"The bodies of some boys were burned in the school incinerator, Kiser said. He said another boy, Johnny Gaddy, told him he had seen a severed human hand in the "hog bath’’ where leftover food was dumped to feed pigs. Boys were rented out to work without pay for neighboring farmers and timber companies."

"Records at Dozier say some students died of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, knife wounds or in a devastating 1914 fire."



Sounds like something out of American Horror Story