Looking into mayhem in Harwinton, legislators hear misbehavior at most girls' emergency shelters is on the rise
Accounts of numerous sex assaults and fights at a state-funded Harwinton shelter for adolescent girls were “outliers,” but Connecticut’s system of emergency shelters is seeing an overall increase in other misconduct and behavioral problems, the head of the Department of Children and Families told a legislative hearing. A three-year concentration of disorder, arguments and girls simply walking ...