Pt 3....More of What's Wrong with America

I'm on a roll!

I hadn't heard about the story from a Marianna, Florida reform school where at least 55 bodies have been found with the possibility that the number could exceed 100 by the time the exhumation is complete. I heard about this from my daughter and then decided to Google it.

If you're like me and haven't heard of this, go here to read about it. Like I said in the first part of this subject a few days ago, the media doesn't report real news these days.

Anyway, I have so many questions about this. Did the families just dump their sons off at this reform school and never checked on their well being? How can your child just go unaccounted for? Why did this go on for so long? The school was open from 1900 to 2011 so even after there were so many allegations of abuse and even a class action lawsuit against one of the instructors for abuse, this reform school was open for a total of 111 years. I have no doubt that the number of bodies that the anthropologists will find will exceed 100.

I have no doubt that the boys that were sent to this reform school had discipline issues. But did they deserve such cruel punishments and conditions? These days, pedophiles and murderers are treated better in prison.

So what's going to be done? It appears that the state of Florida isn't very concerned with punishing any of the living faculty. Imagine that! It's not like Florida has ever really cared about punishing the guilty, anyway. Seriously though, these former employees of the reform school should be held accountable for the torture and killings of these boys. There's many living witnesses to the abuse that happened there but Florida's government doesn't seem to want to dirty their hands with this.

But not only are the people who ran this school guilty. I think that the parents or guardians of these children are somewhat accountable, too. How can you just let your kid go to a place like this and not care enough to check on them and not know that they've disappeared off the face of the earth?

What's wrong with America? America wants to look the other way when such things happen. America would rather pretend that something didn't happen and that such injustices don't exist.