December 1, 2011
How the State of Florida Is Attempting To Cover Up The Largest Case
Of Institutional Child Abuse In America
By Robert W. Straley
Co-Authors:Roger Kiser
Cpt. Bryant E. Middleton
All Colored Links Are Live
Note: The State of Florida allowed boys from 8-17 yrs old to be flogged (a weighted leather strap with a wooden
handle) for 68 years at the Florida School For Boys aka The Dozier School For Boys. The younger boys 11-13yrs
received the most of the whippings, from 15 to 25 to 50 to 100 lashes. This is a true story backed up by history and
hundreds of witnesses. This is the story of the horriffic brutality inflicted upon children in this facility.
The Florida School For Boys in Marianna
Federal Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Report
SOURCE: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/dozier_findltr_12-1-11.p
Note: The above link may give you a download box if so: READ REPORT IN TEXT
[1] DECEMBER 1, 2011 Finally, justice has been served. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
released a harsh criticism of conditions at the Dozier School For Boys (now closed) and the Jackson
Juvenile Offender Center. The report said the state’s “failed system of oversight and accountability” likely has
resulted in dangerous conditions at youth prisons throughout the state." “These conditions return youth to the
community no better-, and likely less-equipped to succeed than when they were first incarcerated.” Florida’s youth
corrections system is so poorly administered that children are assaulted by officers, denied necessary medical care
and punished harshly for minor infractions, a federal report released Friday concludes. Conditions are so
severe, the U.S. Department of Justice said, that they violate the Constitution.
Carol Marbin Miller's Original Video That Broke the Dozier Story
THE SEALING OF THE WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY OCTOBER 2008 AT DOZIER
The State of Florida Apologizes for 68 years of State Sanctioned Flogging of Boys 8-17 yrs old.
The Florida School For Boys aka The Dozier School for Boys "Sealing of the WhiteHouse Ceremony"
Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-REFORMSCHOOL-ALLUMNI.html
Ceremony: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/CAROLREPORTCERMONY.html
[2] In October 21, 2008 the gates of the Dozier School (FSB) were opened so a group of five men, now in their
sixties, could be taken to a ceremony that the State of Florida and the Juvenile Justice Department had sanctioned.
The members of the DJJ who approved the ceremony were Bonnie Rogers, Samadhi Jones, Christy Dely, and
Frank Pinella. There, amid roughly 50 spectators, the men were to speak of their experience in front of the
"whitehouse" punishment room which had been closed for four decades. They could speak of the past, not the
present, that being the only restriction. The ceremony was hosted by Mary Zahasky and Gus Barreiro.
[3] The ceremony was conducted with the presentation of a plaque which promised that these types of abuses
would never happen or be tolerated again. At some point the "whitehouse" was to be torn down. The men were
taken to a graveyard with 31 unmarked crosses amidst the woods, accessed by a dirt road. When the story went
nationwide on the Associated Press the next day, the officials at Dozier said "it was neither an admission
nor an apology." Then what was it and why was the ceremony even conducted? Damage control appears to be
the reason with a continuation of denial of events of the past. The cover up began on that day and continues to
this very day as more abuses are uncovered; yet are without, admissions or apologies, nothing changes it would
appear. The FDLE merely followed suite and " the whitehouse was once again whitewashed and a broader cover
up has begun." An Account of the brutal whippings click this line.
[4] "When we left the ceremony that day we felt a deep and emotional sense of relief, we had been given an
apology however meager, we felt it was a beginning. Never, in the history of Florida had former inmates been
allowed back inside an institution to reconcile a wrongdoing by the State. The State of Florida had admitted to the
vicious whippings that had happened in this frightening white cinder block building. We felt somewhat vindicated for
the past transgressions perpetrated against us and hoped we could finally move on with our lives. Then the very
next day the facility blatantly denies us closure and acts as if the ceremony never occurred and their expressed
words rang with little or no remorse. Those empty promises and dishonest words that meant nothing to the state,
still prevail to this day.
[5] Senator Al Lawson stated at a Jackson County Chamber of Commerce meeting in Marianna that he would try to
have the plaque removed from the notorious "whitehouse" punishment room. The citizenry of Marianna felt it was a
"stain" on their town. As well it should be as they surrounded the boy's school with a wall of silence. They knew the
boys were being brutalized, but put jobs and money over human compassion and dignity. This went on from the
time it opened in 1900 to 1968 when O.J. Keller finally stopped the use of leather whips.
[6] FDLE says the cemetery was known to everyone back in the early 1900's and got lost in time. If it was
the graveyard back to 1900, then where are the rest of the bodies? During these early years boys were thrown in
with the convicts at night, subject to poor nutrition, sickness, worked as adults in the fields, whipped brutally if they
did not perform a man's work, how many died from that alone? Does the FDLE expect the public to believe that
the 31 unmarked graves stand for all that died from 1900 when this institution opened and began its brutal
journey? This does not stand up to simple logic.
Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/FSB-TIMELINE.HTML
If you think boys were not flogged to death read this:
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/DEATH-OF-GIRRARD.html
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/BLOODYHISTORY.html
[7] It would be a sight more than 31. If just one a year died, there would be an extra 50 bodies ( 1900-1950 ) and I
think that would be a low estimate, more like a minimum of three, unclaimed by parents. There were many throw-
away boys in this institution. Where are the rest of the boys buried? Source:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/marianna/
[8] What the FDLE has done is write a blank check of immunity to any brute that works in the DJJ system. Instead of
sending the message that this will never happen again they have sent the message that this can happen again and
we will defend the abusers.
[9] After searching the FDLE's report, as to the beatings, I find there is no mention of any other boy/man other than
the original four White House boys, Roger Kiser, Robert Straley, Michael O. McCarthy and Dick Colon. There are
probably 75 to 100 men that received worse beatings than the above mentioned. Donald Smith, Bill Haynes and
Jerry Cooper, each received well over 100 lashes, yet they are not mentioned in the FDLE's report. Jerry Cooper,
at his own expense, took a lie detector test to confirm that his allegations were true. His scars were photographed.
He passed the test and challenged Troy Tidwell to take a lie detector test as well. In Tidwell's statements of the
beatings he says: "I never gave more than 10-15 gentle blows and never raised the whip over my head." He
refused to submit to a polygraph test. He pled the Fifth Admendent when questioned over the death of Edgar Elton
Source: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/4166
[10] Andrew Bowers, a chaplain at the Dozier School from 1959 to 1963, recalls: For most of its history, Dozier
freely practiced flogging as a method of discipline, or as a matter of whim. Mr. Bowers remembers, "they would
spank the boys when they did wrong or really whenever they wanted to. Some of them they treated pretty bad.
Sometimes they'd spank the children until they couldn't sit down for days. Many beatings were administered with
a "weighted leather flogging strap." Source:
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/78161/78161ini.pdf starting at page 15-18.
Read it in text: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-BOWERS-STATEMENT-ONFLOGGING.html
[11] Source:The Miami News, March 6, 1958: A study made of 250 white boys committed at one time to
Marianna showed that at that point been given 691 whippings among them. Eleven year old boys received 260 or
38% of the beatings, and 17-year-old boys receive 21, or 3%. The older the boy, the fewer the beatings he
received, records of the school showed at that time. End Source. Was this fear of retribution from the older boys or
sadistic pleasure by the "whipmasters?"
[12] The report smacks of being superficial and trivial in nature, there is a huge omission of testimony and facts,
not to mention the history of the school, in which these abuses are well documented all the way back to 1903. In
that time in which we were there, in the 50s and 60s, there was testimony by Dr. Eugene Byrd before the U.S.
Senate, Senate President Louis De La Parte' who hearing of the beatings, drove to FSB and came back to report
to the local newspapers of "a blood splattered shed" which called for a state grand jury to intervene. This was
squelched by Dempsey Barron, a legislative powerhouse. During a visit at FSB Judge Frank Orlando, of Fort
Lauderdale stated: "When a couple of boys I sent up there came over to say hello I felt like a rat for sending them
to that place."Governor Kirk: "If one of your kids were kept in such circumstances you'd be up here with
rifles" Kirk said after a half day tour of the schools at Marianna and Okeechobee. "Somebody should have blown
the whistle on Marianna a long time ago" Jack Levine and Claudia Wright took an unannounced trip to FSB and
found boys as young as ten were being hogtied. They followed up with a class action law suite which eventually
made major changes in the DJJ system.
[13] Unimaginable Conditions http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/516/1072/419711/
On the morning of September 1, 1944, Earl Wilson, a teenage prisoner at the Florida Industrial School at Marianna,
Florida, was found dead in a "confinement cottage" (a cell approximately 7 feet by 10 feet, resembling a concrete
bunker), where petitioner Foxworth (then 14 years of age) and seven other teenage boys (ages 11 to 17) had
been held for periods varying from a few days in the case of some of the boys to a few weeks in the case of
Foxworth himself. The cell contained one set of bunk beds, an open bucket for toilet needs (emptied once daily), a
bucket for drinking water, and a continuously burning light bulb.
[14] Roy Manella, an official of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said at a Tallahassee
news conference that "the Marianna institution was one of the worst examples in the nation of a boys' reform
school. " Newspapers called it a monstrosity, 1400 acres of hell, all in all there are 64 newspaper archive reports
that have been open to the public since at least 1958 and are listed on our web site. Many back up our allegations
to the hilt. Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-ARCHIVE-ON-MARIANNA.html
[15] We believe that the FDLE report was not only poorly done, but staged by the FDLE agents, including
civilians who contributed to the report, as well as DJJ Staff, during the investigation. Their actions were criminal,
contrived in nature so as to betray the public trust and to protect the guilty among the Dozier staff who knew that
boys were subject to brutal abuse, both whipping with weighted leather razor belts (flogging) and sexual abuse for
68 years, including the abuse that went on after 1968 to this day. Leather whips went to hog-tying then to fists,
elbows and deadly restraints, which are being used today in 2012 in juvenile facilities. Refer:
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARCHIVE-THERE-IS-NO-EXCUSE.html
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-KIDS-CLAIM-ABUSE-THOMPSON.html
[16] To know of the felony abuse of a minor and not report it is a felony in the State of Florida. There are many
men still alive that worked at this facility who are guilty of not reporting felony abuse of a child and are still within the
statute of limitations. These men could be prosecuted and are presently employed at facilities around the state.
[17] I noticed there was no acknowledgment of this statement made by Sheila Wexler, who was Dr. Wexler's
daughter. His daughter remembers helping her father, who had poor eyesight, when their family lived on campus.
Sheila Wexler says she occasionally treated boys who had cuts or welts on their behind. "But if they
needed a stitch, It would only be a few." Would you beat your child until they only needed to use stitches? A
casual, horrific statement shows the mind set of the staff at Marianna, as openly stated by Dr. Wexler's own
daughter. A statement that not only supports the victims allegations of savage beatings, but renders the mind-set
of the residents of Jackson County. Source: St. Petersburg Times
[18] In early 2009 we were lucky to obtain as a writer, Robin Gaby Fisher, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative
reporter and now full time writer: After The Fire (non-fiction) book and also has a documentary movie trailer. Robin
wrote "The Boys of the Dark" A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South published by St. Martin's
Press, our non-fiction account of how this fifty year old secret came to national attention. Robin Gaby Fisher
interviewed many people in Jackson County and provided a compelling account of the 111 year old facility and the
town of Marianna that protected it in a veil of secrecy for decades. Roger Kiser published his own book: "The White
House Boys" An American Tragedy.
[19] The State of Florida seems to have overlooked one thing: on October 21, 2008 Roger Kiser, Robert
Straley, Dick Colon, Michael O'McCarthy and Bill Haynes were taken into the FSB/Dozier grounds to
conduct the "Sealing of the Whitehouse Ceremony" to give a short speech, to be presented with a plaque in
admission to their suffering, to plant a tree in remembrance of that day, and to view the 31 unmarked crosses. This
was filmed by Carole Marbin Miller, of The Miami Herald and also reported by Brendan Farrington, Associated
Press. The story went nationwide the next day. For all of you who look down on us and try to stop our journey to
justice remember this: The officials knew of the abuse and brutal whippings or the ceremony would have
never taken place. It was an admission and an apology. You cannot change history.
DOCUMENT LINKS
Click this text to go to all sub files that are revelent to the above document. Links are tagged by paragraph number
(ie) [1] [2] [3] Most are from court, news archives and the Fl. Archives
Florida State Archives: http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm
Marianna: State Archives: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/BLOODYHISTORY.html
Archive Source 64 Articles
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-ARCHIVE-ON-MARIANNA.html
FDLE Report: http://thewhitehouseboys.com/abusereport.pdf
FDLE Report: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/marianna/Dozier-summary.pdf
Our Rebuttal To The FDLE Report: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/TheWhipIsInOurHandsNow.htm
Roger Kiser Founder (1999) of The White House Boys: http://thewhitehouseboys.com
Robert W. Straley Child Inmate at 13 Yrs Old
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com
Jerry Cooper, President
http://www.officialwhitehouseboys.org/
THE WHITE HOUSE BOYS SURVIVOR'S ORGANIZATION
A Project Dedicated to the Survivors of the White House
Post Office Box 5817
Clearwater, Fl. 33758
http://whitehouseboys.com/
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com
Founder: Michael O'McCarthy
Director of Media - Press Contact:
Robert Straley Home: 727-447-4441
Cell Phone: 727-542-4519
Email: rrstraley@hotmail.com
How the State of Florida Is Attempting To Cover Up The Largest Case
Of Institutional Child Abuse In America
By Robert W. Straley
Co-Authors:Roger Kiser
Cpt. Bryant E. Middleton
All Colored Links Are Live
Note: The State of Florida allowed boys from 8-17 yrs old to be flogged (a weighted leather strap with a wooden
handle) for 68 years at the Florida School For Boys aka The Dozier School For Boys. The younger boys 11-13yrs
received the most of the whippings, from 15 to 25 to 50 to 100 lashes. This is a true story backed up by history and
hundreds of witnesses. This is the story of the horriffic brutality inflicted upon children in this facility.
The Florida School For Boys in Marianna
Federal Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Report
SOURCE: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/dozier_findltr_12-1-11.p
Note: The above link may give you a download box if so: READ REPORT IN TEXT
[1] DECEMBER 1, 2011 Finally, justice has been served. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
released a harsh criticism of conditions at the Dozier School For Boys (now closed) and the Jackson
Juvenile Offender Center. The report said the state’s “failed system of oversight and accountability” likely has
resulted in dangerous conditions at youth prisons throughout the state." “These conditions return youth to the
community no better-, and likely less-equipped to succeed than when they were first incarcerated.” Florida’s youth
corrections system is so poorly administered that children are assaulted by officers, denied necessary medical care
and punished harshly for minor infractions, a federal report released Friday concludes. Conditions are so
severe, the U.S. Department of Justice said, that they violate the Constitution.
Carol Marbin Miller's Original Video That Broke the Dozier Story
THE SEALING OF THE WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY OCTOBER 2008 AT DOZIER
The State of Florida Apologizes for 68 years of State Sanctioned Flogging of Boys 8-17 yrs old.
The Florida School For Boys aka The Dozier School for Boys "Sealing of the WhiteHouse Ceremony"
Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-REFORMSCHOOL-ALLUMNI.html
Ceremony: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/CAROLREPORTCERMONY.html
[2] In October 21, 2008 the gates of the Dozier School (FSB) were opened so a group of five men, now in their
sixties, could be taken to a ceremony that the State of Florida and the Juvenile Justice Department had sanctioned.
The members of the DJJ who approved the ceremony were Bonnie Rogers, Samadhi Jones, Christy Dely, and
Frank Pinella. There, amid roughly 50 spectators, the men were to speak of their experience in front of the
"whitehouse" punishment room which had been closed for four decades. They could speak of the past, not the
present, that being the only restriction. The ceremony was hosted by Mary Zahasky and Gus Barreiro.
[3] The ceremony was conducted with the presentation of a plaque which promised that these types of abuses
would never happen or be tolerated again. At some point the "whitehouse" was to be torn down. The men were
taken to a graveyard with 31 unmarked crosses amidst the woods, accessed by a dirt road. When the story went
nationwide on the Associated Press the next day, the officials at Dozier said "it was neither an admission
nor an apology." Then what was it and why was the ceremony even conducted? Damage control appears to be
the reason with a continuation of denial of events of the past. The cover up began on that day and continues to
this very day as more abuses are uncovered; yet are without, admissions or apologies, nothing changes it would
appear. The FDLE merely followed suite and " the whitehouse was once again whitewashed and a broader cover
up has begun." An Account of the brutal whippings click this line.
[4] "When we left the ceremony that day we felt a deep and emotional sense of relief, we had been given an
apology however meager, we felt it was a beginning. Never, in the history of Florida had former inmates been
allowed back inside an institution to reconcile a wrongdoing by the State. The State of Florida had admitted to the
vicious whippings that had happened in this frightening white cinder block building. We felt somewhat vindicated for
the past transgressions perpetrated against us and hoped we could finally move on with our lives. Then the very
next day the facility blatantly denies us closure and acts as if the ceremony never occurred and their expressed
words rang with little or no remorse. Those empty promises and dishonest words that meant nothing to the state,
still prevail to this day.
[5] Senator Al Lawson stated at a Jackson County Chamber of Commerce meeting in Marianna that he would try to
have the plaque removed from the notorious "whitehouse" punishment room. The citizenry of Marianna felt it was a
"stain" on their town. As well it should be as they surrounded the boy's school with a wall of silence. They knew the
boys were being brutalized, but put jobs and money over human compassion and dignity. This went on from the
time it opened in 1900 to 1968 when O.J. Keller finally stopped the use of leather whips.
[6] FDLE says the cemetery was known to everyone back in the early 1900's and got lost in time. If it was
the graveyard back to 1900, then where are the rest of the bodies? During these early years boys were thrown in
with the convicts at night, subject to poor nutrition, sickness, worked as adults in the fields, whipped brutally if they
did not perform a man's work, how many died from that alone? Does the FDLE expect the public to believe that
the 31 unmarked graves stand for all that died from 1900 when this institution opened and began its brutal
journey? This does not stand up to simple logic.
Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/FSB-TIMELINE.HTML
If you think boys were not flogged to death read this:
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/DEATH-OF-GIRRARD.html
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/BLOODYHISTORY.html
[7] It would be a sight more than 31. If just one a year died, there would be an extra 50 bodies ( 1900-1950 ) and I
think that would be a low estimate, more like a minimum of three, unclaimed by parents. There were many throw-
away boys in this institution. Where are the rest of the boys buried? Source:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/marianna/
[8] What the FDLE has done is write a blank check of immunity to any brute that works in the DJJ system. Instead of
sending the message that this will never happen again they have sent the message that this can happen again and
we will defend the abusers.
[9] After searching the FDLE's report, as to the beatings, I find there is no mention of any other boy/man other than
the original four White House boys, Roger Kiser, Robert Straley, Michael O. McCarthy and Dick Colon. There are
probably 75 to 100 men that received worse beatings than the above mentioned. Donald Smith, Bill Haynes and
Jerry Cooper, each received well over 100 lashes, yet they are not mentioned in the FDLE's report. Jerry Cooper,
at his own expense, took a lie detector test to confirm that his allegations were true. His scars were photographed.
He passed the test and challenged Troy Tidwell to take a lie detector test as well. In Tidwell's statements of the
beatings he says: "I never gave more than 10-15 gentle blows and never raised the whip over my head." He
refused to submit to a polygraph test. He pled the Fifth Admendent when questioned over the death of Edgar Elton
Source: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/4166
[10] Andrew Bowers, a chaplain at the Dozier School from 1959 to 1963, recalls: For most of its history, Dozier
freely practiced flogging as a method of discipline, or as a matter of whim. Mr. Bowers remembers, "they would
spank the boys when they did wrong or really whenever they wanted to. Some of them they treated pretty bad.
Sometimes they'd spank the children until they couldn't sit down for days. Many beatings were administered with
a "weighted leather flogging strap." Source:
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/78161/78161ini.pdf starting at page 15-18.
Read it in text: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-BOWERS-STATEMENT-ONFLOGGING.html
[11] Source:The Miami News, March 6, 1958: A study made of 250 white boys committed at one time to
Marianna showed that at that point been given 691 whippings among them. Eleven year old boys received 260 or
38% of the beatings, and 17-year-old boys receive 21, or 3%. The older the boy, the fewer the beatings he
received, records of the school showed at that time. End Source. Was this fear of retribution from the older boys or
sadistic pleasure by the "whipmasters?"
[12] The report smacks of being superficial and trivial in nature, there is a huge omission of testimony and facts,
not to mention the history of the school, in which these abuses are well documented all the way back to 1903. In
that time in which we were there, in the 50s and 60s, there was testimony by Dr. Eugene Byrd before the U.S.
Senate, Senate President Louis De La Parte' who hearing of the beatings, drove to FSB and came back to report
to the local newspapers of "a blood splattered shed" which called for a state grand jury to intervene. This was
squelched by Dempsey Barron, a legislative powerhouse. During a visit at FSB Judge Frank Orlando, of Fort
Lauderdale stated: "When a couple of boys I sent up there came over to say hello I felt like a rat for sending them
to that place."Governor Kirk: "If one of your kids were kept in such circumstances you'd be up here with
rifles" Kirk said after a half day tour of the schools at Marianna and Okeechobee. "Somebody should have blown
the whistle on Marianna a long time ago" Jack Levine and Claudia Wright took an unannounced trip to FSB and
found boys as young as ten were being hogtied. They followed up with a class action law suite which eventually
made major changes in the DJJ system.
[13] Unimaginable Conditions http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/516/1072/419711/
On the morning of September 1, 1944, Earl Wilson, a teenage prisoner at the Florida Industrial School at Marianna,
Florida, was found dead in a "confinement cottage" (a cell approximately 7 feet by 10 feet, resembling a concrete
bunker), where petitioner Foxworth (then 14 years of age) and seven other teenage boys (ages 11 to 17) had
been held for periods varying from a few days in the case of some of the boys to a few weeks in the case of
Foxworth himself. The cell contained one set of bunk beds, an open bucket for toilet needs (emptied once daily), a
bucket for drinking water, and a continuously burning light bulb.
[14] Roy Manella, an official of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said at a Tallahassee
news conference that "the Marianna institution was one of the worst examples in the nation of a boys' reform
school. " Newspapers called it a monstrosity, 1400 acres of hell, all in all there are 64 newspaper archive reports
that have been open to the public since at least 1958 and are listed on our web site. Many back up our allegations
to the hilt. Source: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-ARCHIVE-ON-MARIANNA.html
[15] We believe that the FDLE report was not only poorly done, but staged by the FDLE agents, including
civilians who contributed to the report, as well as DJJ Staff, during the investigation. Their actions were criminal,
contrived in nature so as to betray the public trust and to protect the guilty among the Dozier staff who knew that
boys were subject to brutal abuse, both whipping with weighted leather razor belts (flogging) and sexual abuse for
68 years, including the abuse that went on after 1968 to this day. Leather whips went to hog-tying then to fists,
elbows and deadly restraints, which are being used today in 2012 in juvenile facilities. Refer:
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARCHIVE-THERE-IS-NO-EXCUSE.html
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-KIDS-CLAIM-ABUSE-THOMPSON.html
[16] To know of the felony abuse of a minor and not report it is a felony in the State of Florida. There are many
men still alive that worked at this facility who are guilty of not reporting felony abuse of a child and are still within the
statute of limitations. These men could be prosecuted and are presently employed at facilities around the state.
[17] I noticed there was no acknowledgment of this statement made by Sheila Wexler, who was Dr. Wexler's
daughter. His daughter remembers helping her father, who had poor eyesight, when their family lived on campus.
Sheila Wexler says she occasionally treated boys who had cuts or welts on their behind. "But if they
needed a stitch, It would only be a few." Would you beat your child until they only needed to use stitches? A
casual, horrific statement shows the mind set of the staff at Marianna, as openly stated by Dr. Wexler's own
daughter. A statement that not only supports the victims allegations of savage beatings, but renders the mind-set
of the residents of Jackson County. Source: St. Petersburg Times
[18] In early 2009 we were lucky to obtain as a writer, Robin Gaby Fisher, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative
reporter and now full time writer: After The Fire (non-fiction) book and also has a documentary movie trailer. Robin
wrote "The Boys of the Dark" A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South published by St. Martin's
Press, our non-fiction account of how this fifty year old secret came to national attention. Robin Gaby Fisher
interviewed many people in Jackson County and provided a compelling account of the 111 year old facility and the
town of Marianna that protected it in a veil of secrecy for decades. Roger Kiser published his own book: "The White
House Boys" An American Tragedy.
[19] The State of Florida seems to have overlooked one thing: on October 21, 2008 Roger Kiser, Robert
Straley, Dick Colon, Michael O'McCarthy and Bill Haynes were taken into the FSB/Dozier grounds to
conduct the "Sealing of the Whitehouse Ceremony" to give a short speech, to be presented with a plaque in
admission to their suffering, to plant a tree in remembrance of that day, and to view the 31 unmarked crosses. This
was filmed by Carole Marbin Miller, of The Miami Herald and also reported by Brendan Farrington, Associated
Press. The story went nationwide the next day. For all of you who look down on us and try to stop our journey to
justice remember this: The officials knew of the abuse and brutal whippings or the ceremony would have
never taken place. It was an admission and an apology. You cannot change history.
DOCUMENT LINKS
Click this text to go to all sub files that are revelent to the above document. Links are tagged by paragraph number
(ie) [1] [2] [3] Most are from court, news archives and the Fl. Archives
Florida State Archives: http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm
Marianna: State Archives: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/BLOODYHISTORY.html
Archive Source 64 Articles
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/ARTICLE-ARCHIVE-ON-MARIANNA.html
FDLE Report: http://thewhitehouseboys.com/abusereport.pdf
FDLE Report: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/marianna/Dozier-summary.pdf
Our Rebuttal To The FDLE Report: http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/TheWhipIsInOurHandsNow.htm
Roger Kiser Founder (1999) of The White House Boys: http://thewhitehouseboys.com
Robert W. Straley Child Inmate at 13 Yrs Old
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com
Jerry Cooper, President
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THE WHITE HOUSE BOYS SURVIVOR'S ORGANIZATION
A Project Dedicated to the Survivors of the White House
Post Office Box 5817
Clearwater, Fl. 33758
http://whitehouseboys.com/
http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com
Founder: Michael O'McCarthy
Director of Media - Press Contact:
Robert Straley Home: 727-447-4441
Cell Phone: 727-542-4519
Email: rrstraley@hotmail.com
Dedicated to Michael O'McCarthy who died of a heart attack in Costa Rica during this investigation.
Without him and his journalistic ties this story may never have been told. He was also a survivor of
the "whitehouse" and involved in the "Rosewood Case" Thank you Michael
Without him and his journalistic ties this story may never have been told. He was also a survivor of
the "whitehouse" and involved in the "Rosewood Case" Thank you Michael
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