Bodies to be exhumed from 'concentration camp' boys' school

Horrors: Crosses mark graves at a cemetery at Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.
Investigators have said they have found at least 50 graves on the grounds

Researchers have been given the go-ahead to exhume dozens of bodies of boys believed to have been abused and killed at a closed-down reform school.

Florida's cabinet has approved a year-long dig for human remains at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, in Marianna, in the north west of the state.

Investigators are trying to determine the circumstances surrounding the deaths, which experts say probably occurred between 1914 and 1952.

State officials have for years insisted that 31 boys were interred in a tiny cemetery on the grounds of the notorious reform school.

But recent scans, using high-tech search equipment, have found evidence of at least another 19 bodies buried under the site - and forensic scientists fear there could be many more.  (more...)

Bodies to be exhumed from 'concentration camp' boys' school