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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums55 children beaten to death and thrown in a swamp
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..."and one of these is a six-year-old little boy with marbles in his pocketcome onburied out there in mass graves
unmarked graves
http://news.wfsu.org/post/researchers-ask-public-help-they-look-uncover-more-remains-dozier
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/usf-researchers-unearthed-55-bodies-from-dozier-more-than-state-claimed/2163015
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)When a state school could murder dozens of children after beating and raping them, and few people asked any questions.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)They are still in the good ol days.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)this crime are just evil and depraved. Cowards and scum. Children who could not fight back. Sick! Sick! Sick!
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)But there really is no sense of justice to be had. How can any court sentence make someone feel better about this situation? those poor babies.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Am I resigned to the fact that we may get closure for these families, but well never get them justice? Yes, and heres why
And, weve said this from Day 1, theres no one to be prosecuted whos really left living. And, these bodies are so decomposed, I dont want to get graphic, but its going to be hard. Hopefully, were going to be able to identify most of them, said Bondi.
Hopefully, they are being held accountable in a different dimension.
... like at the bottom of Hell.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)They were the one's responsible for putting the boys there and for regulating the disgusting place.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)I don't care if these rotten people are dead as those children. Stand their stinking corpses in front of the judge and sentence them to Hell. Those that are living, do to them what they did to those children and their families. I am good with it.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)...dig up their corpses and make a public spectacle of cremating their bones. All of them in a pile. And swear to mankind that we will never ever allow anything like that to happen again in the United States of America.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)joking or not. NOT
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)forget the photos from the Iraq war of the little Iraqi children, taken by Dahr Jamail when he posted them on his blog day after day during this horrific war, or those who are still being born totally deformed from our humanitarian chemicals.
This is a horrible story and it's still going on and still no one is being held accountable.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)niyad
(113,293 posts)refusing to allow the remains of those poor victims to be rescued? do they all have ties to the "school"??
the first linked article was totally worthless as far as actual reporting went, and the second only a little better. so much left out for those of us who had not heard of the story before, no idea of time frame, explanations for what was happening to the victims--nothing.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)Then you hear of something like this. As a father and as a human being, I'm sickened to my heart.
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
I'm a gentle guy, but I wish the vile murdering scum could be brought back to life from Hell to receive some vigilante justice. I'm reminded of atrocities committed by totalitarian regimes. Who says we Americans are morally superior to the rest of the world?
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Were the same way and it was kind of a blessing that they were shut down. Too bD the states dropped the ball, though
freshwest
(53,661 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... when they lose touch with their family, they never forget them. My grandmother was 97 when she passed.
she had always wondered what happened to her older brother and to her aunt and some cousins, as they traveled west for a better life in the latter 19th century. And I think it was when she was about 90 years old, she finally found out. Out of the blue, a descendant of one of grandma's long lost relatives contacted our family and eventually traveled from Washington State to Illinois to meet grandma. They brought pictures, genealogy and stories. It gave granny so much peace to know what happened to her relatives so long before. The smile of peace on her face was priceless.
I hope more people come forward to claim the remains of their loved ones like that lady did.
I bet you there are other places like this all over this land. When we were kids, if we misbehaved terribly, our Mom would threaten to send us to "reform school." All we knew is it was not a good place to be, so we straightened up our behavior. And there really WERE reform schools for "juvenile delinquents" in our or neighboring states.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)posthumous punishment of the dead perpetrators. But if there was some way to make their remains an example and the perpetrators could be shown guilty of this atrocity, then find their graves, remove all stones, names and records. Place on their grave a memorial to their victims with a dire warning that humanity will not stand still and turn in ignorance from those who dare defile the innocent and helpless among us.
I can think of a lot more to say but that would be all that was necessary.
sheshe2
(83,752 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,489 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They were called "schools" but they were really nothing more than prisons and prisons in that era were very bad places to be. Guards that were sadists were the norm.
Steve McQueen never forgot his time in a boys school. He used to demand that the studios give him clothing and other supplies when he made a movie which he then donated to his old school. He also spent time going back and talking to the boys and he personally answered every letter he got from them.