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WhiskeyGrinder

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 10:50 AM Mar 2021

Hundreds claim decades of abuse by 150 youth center staffers

Disturbing details. CW: Sexual and physical abuse.

https://apnews.com/article/us-news-new-hampshire-manchester-only-on-ap-c7d7e348269a1c80fa3c902818df0399

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Abuse allegations against New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center now span six decades, with 150 staffers during that time accused of physically or sexually harming 230 children at a facility the victims’ attorney calls a “magnet for predators.”

Rus Rilee sued the state in January 2020 on behalf of three dozen adults who alleged they were abused as children at the Youth Development Center in Manchester between 1982 and 2014. He now represents 230 clients who say they were abused between 1963 and 2018, when they were ages 7 to 18.

As the number of years, accusers and alleged perpetrators has swelled, so, too, has the sickening nature of the allegations. While details beyond the updated number of accusers and time span aren’t included in latest court documents, Rilee plans to add his clients’ accounts to the complaint and described them to The Associated Press:

Of the 150 accused staffers, more than half are accused of sexual abuse, Rilee said. Children were gang raped by counselors, beaten while being raped and forced to sexually abuse each other, he said. Some ended up with sexually transmitted diseases; one ended up pregnant.
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Hundreds claim decades of abuse by 150 youth center staffers (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2021 OP
I certainly hope all administrators who allowed this are jailed lindysalsagal Mar 2021 #1
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