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    DeSantis signs bill compensating Dozier School victims who endured abuse

    By Romy Ellenbogen,

    2024-06-21
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    Richard Estabrook, Florida Public Archaeology Network regional director, and Erin Kimmerle, University of South Florida assistant professor of anthropology, use ground penetrating radar to survey a cemetery at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna in May.

    Roy Conerly says the Legislature’s decision was his birthday present.

    For 15 years, Conerly traveled to Tallahassee for each legislative session to talk about physical and sexual abuse he and other survivors of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys experienced at the now-shuttered state-run institution in northwest Florida, and to ask the state to acknowledge how children had to suffer because of their failure.

    This year in March, on his 78th birthday, the Florida Senate passed a bill that would provide $20 million to compensate victims of the Dozier School and another state reform school in Okeechobee County.

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