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Dozens of children suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of guards, nurses, and others at Pennsylvania juvenile detention centers, according to four related lawsuits filed Wednesday.
The lawsuits describe how 66 people, now adults, say they were victimized by guards, nurses, supervisors, and others, the AP reports.
Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met with disbelief, the lawsuits allege.
"The purpose of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate and educate and reform, to equip them to lead healthy, productive lives," says Jerome Block, whose New York law firm has also pursued similar lawsuits in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Michigan.
The lawsuits name the state-run Loysville Youth Development Center, South Mountain Secure Treatment Unit, and North Central Secure Treatment Unit in Danville; Merakey USA's Northwestern Academy outside Shamokin, which closed in 2016; and facilities run by Tucson, Arizona-based VisionQuest National Ltd.Eighteen of the latest plaintiffs describe rapes and other sexual abuse at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health facilities.
Merakey USA, which operated Northwestern Academy before it shut down in 2016, is accused of a "culture of sexual abuse and brutality" including "inappropriate and criminal sexual relationships with children" who were granted or denied privileges to pressure
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