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Inside the "White House" toilet facility (used by permission from Roger Keiser)
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I asked Julian what he learned from his experience during his stay at the Dozier “School” for Boy. He said, “complete disrespect for authority.”
Today, Julian Michael Sapp is a Snook Fisherman. He grew up and moved on with his life but wants to hold those persons accountable for his mistreatment as a youth. He was a Plaintiff in the Class Action Lawsuit which has been filed against the State of Florida for the abuses of the Dozier “School” for Boys. “I withdrew myself because I don’t want money off the tragedy”. Mr. Sapp said. “Off my book Chasing Freedom, Life of a white House Boy, yes, off the law suit no.”
Julian was assigned to “Pierce Hall” as shown in the picture in our November 23rd, 2009 article, The Life of a “White House Boy” I. Julian said, “It was isolated from everything else; it was on a hill where they sent kids they thought were mentally disturbed and I was given some type of medication. I am not sure what it was.”
Julian said that during his stay “I was beaten two more times but they were minor, not like the first time.” He would go on to witness other children when they were showering who had disgusting marks from beatings on their buttocks, thighs and backs. He said, “you could not miss it.”
Julian was released from the Dozier “School” for Boys on June 06, 1961 to his biological fathers wife, whose name we have redacted from the included document titled “Florida Department of Juvenile Justice” dated October 06, 2009. (EXCLUSIVE)
I asked Julian what he learned from his experience from his stay at the Dozier “School” for Boys? He said, “complete disrespect for authority.”
I was recently reading Ben Montgomery’s and Waveney Ann Moore’s story from the Sunday December 06, 2009 St. Petersburg Times edition titled “Florida juvenile justice: Dozier school’s roster of the lost.” The story focused on boys from the “Dozier Class of 88″ and how many of them were arrested again after their stay at the Dozier “School” for Boys and found shocking evidence of an almost complete rate of failure of the Dozier “School” for Boys to “reform” or rehabilitate any of the boys from the “Class of 88.”
I took notice of the comments section of the storyand I think this comment summarizes the ignorance of some of the readers; “lillapoyka” commented, “If you would have behaved as a kid you never would have been sent their. You have nobody to blame except yourselves and maybe your parents.” (St. Petersburg Times comment section December 06, 2009)
Let us not forget these were minors and the State of Florida was charged with protecting them once committed to their care and the state failed and continues to fail to this day.
In Julian’s case he would go on to get into further trouble with the law.
When he was 16 Julian and another boy, whose father happened to be the local Police Chief, were walking along and saw a row boat. So they took it for a joy ride. When they returned to the dock a deputy was waiting for them. The Police Chief did not want Julian hanging out with his son. And so, for this joy ride, Julian was sentence to 3 months probation which he completed successfully.
Shortly thereafter the Police Chief found out Julian was back hanging out with his son and had him rearrested for a 2nd time for stealing the row boat. This time Judge Sample sentenced Julian to Florida State Prison for a period no shorter than 6 months and not longer than 3 years depending upon his behavior.
Julian said, “Before they rearrested me a 2nd time for stealing the row boat I was still salvageable.” Julian was held in the local jail for the next 14 months and, at about age 17½, he was transferred to Raiford State Prison in Florida. Julian’s fate would now be in his own hands. He had been dehumanized by his stay at the Dozier “School”. He had had his civil rights trampled there as well as by the local Police Chief who felt he could arrest anyone whom he did not like hanging around with his son.
Julian would go on to appeal this case himself all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
Julian’s trouble with the law was not over. While at Raiford, Julian escaped and committed additional crimes. His sentence was extended by 97 years. At the retrial in 1965 he accepted a plea deal for 20 years. He completed the 20 years sentence and was released from the Orlando Work Center on October 18, 1975 as did expiration of the sentence.
But something happened along the way that “would change my life forever,” I inquired as to what that was. Julian said, “someone took an interest in me.” I asked who and he said “While in prison a woman starting writing to me and started visiting me. She would drive a lot of miles a week to see me. It change me, it changed my life.”
Julian was released from prison on October 1st, 1975. His sentence had been reduced by several years because Julian had appealed his 2nd arrest and charge as a Juvenile for stealing the row boat. Upon his release they started dating in 1975 and had children together. “This changed my whole life,” Julian said.
I asked him if he was involved with any drugs or drinking when he committed the crimes we discussed. He said “no, I tried a marijuana cigarette in 1975 and it freaked me out and to this day I am not involved with any of that period!”
Julian left the state in 1975 and went to work for a deaf school in West Virginia. “I worked there until they got my background check back and they found out I was an ex-con and my employment was terminated as a result. I was hired for a special skill I learned while in prison and that was sign language because back then ‘mutes’ were treated differently–like outcasts from society and it was hard to find a person who knew sign language and I got that job pretty quickly.”
In 1976 Julian started working in Columbia South Carolina, as a dredge engineer ”because no one cared about your background just as long as you could do the job and it paid well,” he said. He would go on to become chief engineer on the dredge in 1979 he was working a tug boat in Tampa, Florida the day the ship struck the Skyway Bridge knocking numerous cars and a bus off the bridge into the water. He said, “we went right over there and started pulling survivors out of the water.”
He did a brief stint as an orange grove manager in the early 1980’s and then went back to work as a dredge engineer “because it paid so well,” he said. 1985 he was working in Longwood, Florida installing fire sprinklers and was promoted by the company in 1988 and started teaching at Seminole Community College in the Vocational Training Program. He taught apprentices at the college how to become Journeymen and Master Pipe-fitters.
But then trouble stuck again; the college got back his background check. “They were going to terminate me if not for one man; Mac Blyth,” Julian said. “He went to bat for me.” Mr. Blythe got the school to hold off on terminating Julian until he could hear back from the governors office on his request for a pardon.
On April 12, 1988 Julian Michael Sapp was pardoned for all of his past crimes by then Florida Governor Bob Martinez. His civil rights have been restored with the exception of his right to carry a firearm. (EXCLUSIVE)
Julian kept his job and in 1990 went on to work as youth minister at Osteen Baptist Church outside of Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1991 he went to work for the Salvation Army at a homeless lodge. In about three months he was promoted to Disaster Director for the Salvation Army and then promoted to Director of residential Drug Treatment for their drug treatment program. He worked closely with Volusia and Flagler county to coordinate disaster relief.
Julian retired in 2001 as a result of a heart attack the year before. He said, “I tried to go back to work but my short term memory gave me some trouble and i figured it was about time to retire.”
"Gone Fishing"
You can reach Julian and the other ‘White House Boys” at http://www.theofficialwhitehouseboys.com.
Brill Smith can be reached at brillsmith@gmail.com
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Coming Monday January 11, 2010
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Ebenezer Sembler
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Wesley Fager passed away on February 13, 2009. In an editorial he submitted to, and posted by St. Petersburg Times dated January 04, 2009. Wesley shared his life reflections and had some suggestions for Melvin Sembler.
You may read Wesley’s editorial by clicking on this link http://www.itsyourtimes.com/?q=node/4155
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Julian Sapp outside Pierce Hall April 1961
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Feds Must Investigate Florida’s Dozier “School” for Boys Part I
When asked what was the worst thing he could remember, Mr. Sapp said “I would smell my own butt before it started to itch just before it started to heal. It was a 3 step process. First you would smell it, second it would itch, third it would heal.” Julian Michael Sapp, “White House Boy” October 2009
The first thing that crossed my mind when I was interviewing Mr. Sapp was the struggle African Americans have had in the United States from slavery; being treated as if they are not human and during their lengthy and continuing struggle for basic humanity and civil rights.
Their struggle continues today with our first African American President Obama. I ask myself if it will ever end. It’s not just their struggle it’s every American’s struggle and it is in our mutual and national best interest to come to terms with our past and current misdeeds.
And we don’t have to look far to find common ground; only to our own childhoods and families. In the introduction to a prior edition of her inspired treatises on growing up and raising kids in America, Teenage Liberation Handbook,Grace Lewellynstates that “Teenagers are the new niggers.” This, in our opinion, is true. But I guess that statement carries too much truthfor today’s politically correct audience so it has been excised from recent editions of that book. (The book is still worth reading).
I had the singular pleasure of interviewing Mr. Julian Michael Sapp. Born 1945, Mr. Sapp is a survivor of the Dozier “School” for Boys in Mariana, Florida. Mr. Sapp knows first hand how an individual can be dehumanized by the system so that they may be treated in a manner so horrible that we prosecute as criminals those who mistreat animals in such a despicable way. But, for some damned reason, we turn a blind eye when it happens to “bad kids”.
When Julian was just 5 years old his biological mother dropped him and his two younger siblings off with his Aunt Polley and never came back. Aunt Polley had no children of her own and is now deceased. Julian recalls “She would run my fingers through the washer rollers. She beat me or slapped me whenever and with whatever she had in her hand or otherwise. Sexual abuse was not uncommon.”
When I asked Julian why she mistreated him like this he said, “She was a fanatical religious person who believed spare the rod spoil the child.”
He cited as an example when just age 12, he knew his report card was not going to be very favorable. He was afraid of what might come when his Aunt Polley found out that afternoon. She always drove him and his two younger siblings to the bus stop in the morning. He knew he could not take another beating; he was afraid. So he hatched a plan to burn down the house that morning thinking somehow he might avoid the beating sure to come that afternoon.
The house was an old Army barracks with the wires exposed inside. He wrapped some newspaper around the wires and lit them on fire on the way out the door to the bus stop. He said, “the fire trucks passed us going the opposite way as we were going down the street to the bus stop.”
The house and all their belonging were destroyed in the fire. No charges were brought against him as they did not know at the time that he set the fire.
The first time Julian got into trouble with the law he was when he stole some candy from a store on his way to school. In January 1960, he was sentenced by Judge Sample to Okeechobee Boys School. While at the school, Julian was assigned to the dairy. There he milked and watched the artificial insemination of cows. Julian would later say, “the insemination was pretty damned gross.”
One evening while playing football he broke his left wrist and as a result was unable to work the dairy any longer. He was assigned mail duty and would ride into town to retrieve the mail with one of the superintendents. On one of the trips the superintendent left the keys in the ignition of the car when he got out to get the daily mail and Julian jumped into the driver seat and took off.
I asked him why he did that. He said, “I guess it was impulse, I really don’t have a reason.”
A chase ensued with the Sheriff right behind him. I asked him if he had ever driven a car before? He said, “No, and I was doing it with my right arm because my left wrist was in a cast.”
The Sheriff’s car bumped his rear bumper and knocked him off the road and Julian went through the windshield and he added, “I still have the scars from that to this day.”
Julian was arrested and charged with Auto Theft. He appeared before judge G.E. Bryant who sentenced him to the Dozier “School” for Boys. Date of commitment 05/23/1960 and date of admission 06/11/1960. I asked him where he was held for the 20 days between May 23rd and June 11th 1960. He said, “I was in solitary confinement in the Okeechobee County jail.” He was just 14 years old.
Julian was then transferred by a Deputy Sheriff to Marianna County, Florida and turned over to the Dozier “School” for Boys. Julian said, “When the Sheriff took the handcuffs off Mr. Hatton grabbed me by the arm and lead me out the back door. I could see the kitchen on one side and this white building to my right. He took me to the white building and we went inside and he sat me on a cot; then he and another man who was in the room whom he later found out was Mr. Tidwell.; nicknamed by the boys ”Slot Machine” or “One Armed Bandit.” Julian said, “the kids had given Tidwell the nicknames because he had one arm, so that’s what we called him.” Mr. Tidwell and Mr. Hatton went into the back of the building.
They soon came out and Julian said, “Hatton motioned me to come with him to another bed and I saw the strap.” Julian said, “Hatton then told me to, lay down and don’t holler and don’t try to get up. ‘You stole the superintendent’s car and he said for me to take care of you.’ Then he beat me on my buttocks. I could hear his foot turn scraping on the floor right before he would hit me and tense up. After about the the 3rd hit I don’t recall much.
“The next time I recalled anything was later that day I was in the shower and there is a guy there named Riley White who was a cottage father. He told me to let my pants get soaked before I took them off because pieces and threads of my pants were buried in my skin. I had to pick them out before I applied the state grease ’suave medication’. That’s what we called it.
“Day one concluded with them placing me in solitary confinement for two weeks.” When Julian was released from solitary he said, “the first person I met was Dr. Robert L. Currie. We had a short conversation and I told him if you ever beat me down like that again I am going to burn this whole place down to the ground.”
The “White House Boys” can be reached at http://officialwhitehouseboys.com/
Brill Smith may be reached at brillsmith@gmail.com
Part II FEDS must investigate Dozier “School” for Boys
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Millions paid on Mr. Newton's behalf for his abuse of children
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Just who is Virgil Miller Newton? Check out this link http://thestraights.com/newton-abuse-at-straight.htm
Story and comments: http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=352054#p352054
Comments invited.
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Child Abuser Troy Tidwell leaving courthouse
Coming soon: The life of a “White House Boy” (EXCLUSIVE)
UPDATED 11/20/2009 16:35 EST
By Julian Michael Sapp, “White House Boy”
Blood, Sweat and Tears
So long ago, yet still so real,
So lost in time but I still feel,
A painful blow draws first blood,
An eerie sound, an awful thud.
Was that ten or twenty licks?
Will I die, can I be fixed?
It hurts so bad, what did I do?
My mind’s a blank, I beg of you.
Please don’t hit me anymore,
I can’t think of what it’s for.
I don’t know, am I to blame?
I thought it was just a game.
I taste the blood, salty brine,
Is that me I hear crying?
What about my sweaty brow?
I hold on, I don’t know how.
The tears run silent as I weep,
From my soul is where they seep.
I bite down hard, it smells so bad,
I feel the grief, the pain, the sad.
I sense the anguish and dismay,
Of those who strayed this awful way.
Their blood, tears, their sweat I see,
On the walls surrounding me.
I hear their cry, oh help me please,
I’m begging you, I’m on my knees.
We little boys, cried loud in pain,
But no one cared, nobody came.
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Evidently, Virgil is working on his costume. He wants to add to his priest get-up by putting that cupola on top of his house again. So the City of Madeira Beach had a meeting on October 26th, 2009 to decide whether or not to let him go through with it.
See Virgil manipulating and conning to beat the band done up in in his full priest get up! See Kim Morello defend her home community! See Richard Bradbury confront the Reverend Dr. Dr. Virgil “Fr. Cassion” Miller Newton for habitual child abuse! See David Anderson passionately defend the memory of his 3 dearly departed cousins; victims of Virgil. Hear the reading of letters which poured in from local residents, program survivors, organizations like Pokrov.
Here is the video of the entire meeting of the City of Madeira Beach Special Magistrate, Monday, October 26th, 2009 for a special use zoning variance in two parts; part 1 & part 2
Editorial comment:
I have one question. What is the City of Madeira Beach all about? It’s a boating community; a sleepy, friendly, laid back little beach town. But is it a caring community? Is it a neighborhood of good people who want to be known as the friendly, decent people they surely are? Approving Virgil’s application for a Christian symbol would be much like approving a swastika cupola for a neighbor who may want to operate a meeting place for the Klu Klux Clan. As just one of untold thousands of victims of Straight, Inc and it’s follow on programs, I have to say that indulging Virgil’s delusions of decency is a cold hard slap in the face to those of us who have suffered his abuse and to those unwitting victims he likely continues to abuse. It will be a black mark on the name of the City of Madeira Beach and the good people of that community in perpetuity.
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As seen today in Tampa, Florida
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UPDATE: 10/29/2009 VIDEO OF HEARING TO BE POSTED TONIGHT WITH CONTENT OF STORY (COMMENTS WILL BE POSTED)
CONTENT PENDING-PICTURES AND VIDEO AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME
Child Abuser Miller Newton 10/26/2009
