Survivor of abuse at Florida all-boys school finally gets diploma at 75

Eddie Horne attended Dozier School for Boys in 1960s, a state-run institution known for molestation and beatingsA 75-year-old Florida man has just received his high school diploma decades after his education was derailed by severe abuse that he endured as a teenager while attending a notoriously brutal reform school.As he recounted to the local news outlets WTVT and WTSP, Eddie Horne’s stroll across the graduation stage at a ceremony Thursday at St Petersburg high school in Pinellas county, Florida, fulfilled a goal that he set for himself after fighting to overcome the trauma inflicted on him beginning at age 14 at the state-run Dozier School for Boys. Continue reading...

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