Posted on 09/06/2013 1:41:34 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Robert Straley was 13 when he entered the Florida School for Boys in the early 1960s for running away from home. The 1,400-acre grounds in the city of Marianna looked like heaven compared to his troubled home, he said, but on his first day, he was beaten bloody 35 times with a three-foot leather whip with a sheet metal insert.
"These were not spankings -- they were floggings," said Straley, 66 and now living in Clearwater, Fla.
"It looked like a college campus, not a reform school," he said. "There were no fences, the cottages were surrounded by trimmed hedges and tall pines and oaks. There was a swimming pool and a chapel. It looked nice, but it was a beautiful hell."
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Tomkinson!
The US seems to be not so far removed from the horrors in Syria.
Sex abuse and beatings at home used to often be followed by potentially fatal sexual abuse and beatings after running away.
Obama did not set this red over and over again but the world did.
I guess I should have taken it more seriously when my mom threatened to send me to reform school.
“The US seems to be not so far removed from the horrors in Syria.”
Careful what you say - Obama might just order an air strike on Florida...
When I was in grade school in the ‘60s in Florida, my teacher would warn the boys that they would wind up in Marianna. Little did we know what that would have meant. She also said that we were driving her to Chattahoochee (State Mental Hospital).
wilkinson school for boys
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