Florida quietly launched new probe into troubled school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Over the past two years, Florida authorities quietly launched new probes into homicide and sexual abuse allegations associated with a notorious and now shuttered reform school in the Panhandle.
But despite interviewing 50 alleged victims of sexual abuse at the Marianna school, the case will not lead to any arrests.
State Attorney Glenn Hess, the lead prosecutor for six north Florida counties, told state investigators in late May there was not enough evidence to pursue murder charges and that too much time had passed to charge anyone with abuse.
"While wine may get better with age, criminal cases do not," Hess said in a May 24 letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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