As New Hampshire policymakers try to grapple with accusations of decades of systemic sexual and physical abuse of children at the state-run Youth Development Center, a lead lawyer in the case is advising his hundreds of clients not to settle with the state.
Most victims of the systematic, decades-long abuse inside New Hampshire’s Youth Development Center are still waiting for settlement checks from the state or for their day in court, but now some of those victims are telling their stories after decades of silence and fear.