55 children beaten to death and thrown in a swamp

[riverwalker]

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..."and one of these is a six-year-old little boy with marbles in his pocket—come on—buried 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]

1. words fail me

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R for more visibility. nt

[zappaman]

3. Kick and REC!!! n/t

[REP]

4. So, these are the "good ol' days" conservatives long for

When a state school could murder dozens of children after beating and raping them, and few people asked any questions.

[mstinamotorcity2]

5. No they are still there.

They are still in the good ol days.

[heaven05]

6. the people that perpetrated

this crime are just evil and depraved. Cowards and scum. Children who could not fight back. Sick! Sick! Sick!

[MerryBlooms]

7. omg, poor babies. I hope those responsible are held accountable,

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]

8. They won't be held accountable, they are already dead.

“Am I resigned to the fact that we may get closure for these families, but we’ll never get them justice? Yes, and here’s why…And, we’ve said this from Day 1, there’s no one to be prosecuted who’s really left living. And, these bodies are so decomposed, I don’t want to get graphic, but it’s going to be hard. Hopefully, we’re going to be able to identify most of them,” said Bondi.

Hopefully, they are being held accountable in a different dimension.

[ReRe]

16. Yeah...

... like at the bottom of Hell.

[Live and Learn]

10. The State and the justice system should be held responsible.

They were the one's responsible for putting the boys there and for regulating the disgusting place.

[mstinamotorcity2]

9. That is just horrible.

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]

13. There's an idea...

...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]

15. I do forget to say if I am

joking or not. NOT

[sabrina 1]

23. Not just in the US we need to swear to mankind not to do it anywhere. I will not

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]

11. Horrific. n/t

[niyad]

12. how utterly horrible. and, what in the world did scott and company think they could hide in

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]

14. You think you've heard it all and fear that you might have become jaded. . . .

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]

17. the insane asylums

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]

18. The behavior has not gone away. Now done in private places and hard to ferret out. n/t

[ReRe]

19. Old folks are like that....

... 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]

20. I think it's pretty useless to think about

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]

21. no words, I have no words. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

22. Such evil people to do this

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. kick

[Starry Messenger]

25. recommend

[Major Nikon]

26. While this particular one was bad, I have no doubt there were others

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.

[gollygee]

27. :(

[byronius]

28. That is an incredibly moving image. So sad.