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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

‘Magnet for predators’

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.” 

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I used to work with an older guy out at the ammo plant back in the '80s that was a Ward of the State down in Florida when he was a pre-teen and teen, and the abuse he suffered was horrific, pretty much identical to the abuse outlined in the article.
After he quit the plant, he ended up writing a book about it and from there went on to testify in front of committees about the place.