The history of the United States is often woven with numerous gaps of darkness that history is gradually bringing to light.One of its most controversial and unfortunate basements was what happened in a Tallahassee reformatory, the capital of Florida, throughout the 20th century.
The horror reformatory: Arthur G.Dozier College
To testify to that horror, there are many of the boys there admitted that, finally, they could give their chilling account of what they lived there.And not only that, the 55 bodies scattered through the grounds of that supposed school for rebel boys, give «silent voice» about some understandable educational practices.
It has taken more than a century for this drama to come to light, and today, we want to remember it for you in Lifestyle.
The Arthur G.Dozier Young Industrial School
Let's put a random date: 1960.Imagine you're a 14-year-old boy life, he is not treating you too well.Imagine that your parents mistreat you and that one day you decide to escape from home.If in these years you live in Tallahasee, you know that the authorities and social services will take you to the school of Arthur G.Dozier. Consider also that your family follows a traditional and very severe educational style, you have authoritarian parents who decide that it is best for you to spend a summer in a boarding school where you learn manners The doors of Arthur G.Dozier's school would open for you too.
It is said that these facilities have registered more than 1,400 boys in their bonanza years But the horror story that was displayed on this stage was as real as heinous, in fact, it had all the Lementos for any horror movie that we see in the cinema today.Outside, the school was an example of modernity and elegance: large gardens where the lawn was cut daily, numerous pavilions for children, olympic pool, a field of American football...It was like a university campus for the rebel boys of the time, but with an important nuance, many of those who entered, did not come out again.
After those elegant walls of orange bricks, violent beatings, hideous punishments, rapes and murders were hidden. Roger Dean Kisser was one of the boys who was admitted to the Arthur G.Dozier school, thanks to him, we know many of the things there occurred by his book «The children of the White House, an American tragedy».g> According to him, the devil was hiding behind each tree and after every blade of grass in those gardens.He says that as soon as he arrived, he was amazed by the dreadful silence that was in those facilities.He was not used to such silence, and more in a school.
Relates that his welcome to that place was simply brutal.It only lasted 5 minutes, but he could never forget it.Two guards took him by the arms and dragged him into a room.Then, they bent him, suffocated him and They gave him a lot of lashes.He remembers everything in slow motion...After that welcome, he was taken to the doctor with total peace of mind.He was there from 1959 to 1961.We also have another interesting testimony. Richard Newest also I was 12 years old when Arthur G.Dozier arrived at the school.After spending several years there, he left c completely destroyed physically and psychologically.He wanted to report it in a newspaper, but nobody, absolutely nobody, paid attention to it.His testimony was as follows:
"As soon as I arrived at school, they took my name and I became only one number.I was the intern R 297 for eight long months.The first day they took me to a building, they ordered me to wear a gray uniform, they gave me a blanket, a cup and an aluminum plate.I stayed in a dormitory with 40 other children, nobody was separated by age.The youngest people cried in fear during the day and at night they tried to remain completely silent.Everyone wanted to be invisible and not attract the attention of veterans or a guard.Everyone knew what could happen if any of them caught you alone.Eat once a day and receive a ration that did not pass a thin soup of potato peel and a piece of dry bread.We ate with our hands, fast for anyone to take our food.Even today, after so many years, sometimes I wake up breathless, thinking that I am in Dozier School."
Now we have to give you a piece of information I'm sure it will surprise you.Dozier School was in operation from 1900 to 2011.The shadow of suspicion always fluttering through its pavilions and large gardens, there were many complaints that were filed and many investigations initiated that never reached be concludes Incomprehensible, right? It was with the publication in 2009 of the book that we have previously named you, "The Children of the White House, an American tragedy", when things began to be taken seriously.
The official records show that 31 boys died at school.The graves are still there with crosses made of PVC pipes.But there were many, many boys who simply "evaporated." The answer they gave to the families was that, surely , they escaped.Was this true? Obviously not, and thanks to the book and social expectation, the need to start a deep investigation was finally ruled.The anthropologists of the University of South Florida did not take long to find an answer: Scattered under the broad 55 Dozier school gardens have already found 55 bodies.55 bodies of boys who died tortured.
But does this end the dark history of this reformatory? Not at all, it is known that there are more bodies, but to exhume them you need the authorization of the families of the victims.And today it is very difficult to find them, so it seems that the punishment for Guilty will take time to arrive.
Hopefully that day will come soon, while, we leave you with another chilling story, that of the girl who spent 5 years in a closet.incomprehensible things that should never happen.
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