美國「操場埋屍案」：學校場地挖出55具遺骸，佛州當局開始徹查

Florida authorities will probe boys reform school where at least 55 burials were identified

佛羅里達當局將對一所少年改造學校進行調查，在那裡發現了至少55具遺骸

來源：福克斯新聞 翻譯：世界播

Florida authorities announced Thursday they will officially begin examining the grounds of a former boys reform school in Florida in mid-July to determine if it was a crime scene where dozens of former students may have died and been buried.

佛羅里達當局周四宣布，他們將於7月中旬正式開始檢查佛羅里達州一所前少年改造學校的場地，以確定那裡是否是數十名學生死亡並被埋葬的犯罪現場。

State officials will survey the entire 1,200-acre campus of the Dozier School For Boys in Marianna, where hundreds of boys were beaten and abused since its opening in 1900 after researchers found 55 burials on the school"s grounds in 2012.

該州官員將對瑪麗安娜地區的多齊爾男校1200英畝的整個校園進行調查。2012年，研究人員在該校的操場上發現了55具遺骸，自該校1900年開學以來，已有數百名男孩遭到毆打和虐待。

Workers discovered 27 potential "clandestine" graves near the official school burial grounds in April, prompting the state to allocate $850,000 to Erin Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist at the University of South Florida and her team of researchers who previously surveyed the site on behalf of the state in 2012. The new, extensive survey will use radarlike laser mapping data to determine if there is any need for a deeper probe on the grounds, where at least 100 boys may have died between 1900 and 1973, according to reports by the Tampa Bay Times.

今年4月，工作人員在學校的官方墓地附近發現了27個潛在的「秘密」墳墓，促使該州撥款85萬美元給艾琳·金莫爾——她是南佛羅里達大學的法醫人類學家，她的研究團隊此前曾在2012年代表該州調查過該地。根據《坦帕灣時報》的報道，將要進行的這項新的、廣泛的調查將使用雷達式激光測繪數據來確定是否有必要對地面進行更深的探測，在1900年至1973年期間，可能至少有100名男孩死亡。

Dozier, which closed in 2011, was intended to be a reformatory school for boys who had brushes with the law or other behavioral issues to "receive careful, physical, intellectual and moral training.」

多齊爾男校於2011年關閉，該校旨在成為一所感化學校，招收那些觸犯法律或其他行為問題的男孩，讓他們「接受精心的、身體上的、智力上的和道德上的訓練」。

Instead, it became a campus where boys lived in segregation, blacks on the north side and whites on the south, and were sent to the White House, a disciplinary cinder block building where guards brutally beat youngsters with straps of leather and metal. Some boys were even sexually abused in a separate room deemed the "rape room."

然而事實是，這裡的男孩們住在種族隔離的環境中，北部住著黑人，南部住著白人，他們被送進了一所稱作「白宮」的建築里——這是一棟懲戒性的煤渣建築，警衛們用皮帶和金屬帶野蠻地毆打年輕人。有些男孩甚至在一個被認為是「強姦室」的單獨房間里受到性虐待。

The U.S. Department of Justice reported 「systemic, egregious and dangerous practices exacerbated by a lack of accountability and controls,」 which forced the closing of Dozier in 2011.

美國司法部報告說，「由於缺乏問責和控制，系統性、極端和危險的做法進一步惡化」，迫使多齊爾男校在2011年關閉。

Gov. Ron DeSantis has thrown his support behind initiatives to uncover deaths, abuses, or wrongdoings at the school, saying 「This is a subject that this administration takes very seriously, and we will handle it correctly."

州長羅恩·德桑蒂斯支持揭露該校死亡、虐待或不當行為的舉措，他說，「這是本屆政府非常重視的問題，我們會正確處理。」

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