"Edward," "Elizabeth" and "Chris" are pseudonyms. CNN agreed to change the names to protect the family's privacy. Look for their story this weekend on CNN. Mother and son clutch hands, describing abuse by a man who said he attended a Florida reform school. MIAMI, Florida (CNN)  -- "Elizabeth" and "Chris" have never been to Marianna, Florida. But Marianna came to them -- and stayed. They say they lived with a man whose tortured past brought them a lifetime of pain. It goes back 50 years, to a man CNN is calling "Edward," who claimed to his family that he attended a Florida reform school in Marianna in the early 1960's.
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"Edward" told family he was physically, sexually abused at reform school
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Family didn't believe his stories until investigation of Florida School for Boys
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Florida Department of Law Enforcement looking into allegations
"We were the ripple ... effect of their abuse on my husband, his abuse on us," @placeholder said, her eyes brimming with tears.
With months to live, @placeholder says, his father would sometimes wake him in the middle of the night.