A judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, but he left the door open for individual claims against the state.The lead plaintiff, David Meehan, sued.
A judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire's youth detention center, but he
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A judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, but he left the door open for individual claims against the state.
The lead plaintiff, David Meehan, sued the Sununu Youth Services Center, the agencies overseeing it and half a dozen former employees in January 2020, alleging that he endured near daily beatings and rapes in the late 1990s at what was then called the Youth Development Center.
His attorney, Rus Rilee, now represents more than 300 men and women who say they were physically or sexually abused as children by 150 staffers from 1960 to 2018, including gang rapes, being forced to fight each other for food and being locked in solitary confinement for weeks or months.
Sex abuse class-action suit tossed, individual claims stand
HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
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FILE - This Jan. 28, 2020, file photo shows the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, N.H. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a New Hampshire man now charged with holding down a teenage boy during a rape at the youth detention center had been fired years earlier.Charles Krupa/AP
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) A judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, but he left the door open for individual claims against the state.