6 former youth detention center employees arrested on sexual assault charges
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Six men were arrested Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation into claims of sexual assault at a state-run youth detention center in New Hampshire, authorities said.
The Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Development Center, in Manchester has been under investigation since July 2019, when two former counselors were charged with 82 counts of rape.
Those charges were dropped last year to strengthen a broader investigation that has resulted now in the re-arrest of the two former counselors, along with four employees.
CONCORD, N.H. • Six former staffers at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center were arrested Wednesday in connection with the abuse of 11 children over the course of a decade, including one who continued working with children for nearly 20 years after he is accused of holding a boy down while colleagues raped him.
The Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Development Center, has been under investigation since July 2019, when two former counselors were charged with raping a teenage boy 82 times in the 1990s.
Those charges were dropped last year in order to strengthen the expanded investigation, but both men were arrested again Wednesday and charged with rape, the attorney general’s office said. Two others also were charged with rape, while other two were charged with being accomplices to rape. The allegations span from 1994 to 2005.
Apr 8, 2021
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Six former staffers at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center were arrested Wednesday in connection with the abuse of 11 children over the course of a decade, including one who continued working with children for nearly 20 years after he is accused of holding a boy down while colleagues raped him.
The Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Development Center, has been under investigation since July 2019, when two former counselors were charged with raping a teenage boy 82 times in the 1990s.
Those charges were dropped last year in order to strengthen the expanded investigation, but both men were arrested again Wednesday and charged with rape, the attorney general’s office said. Two others also were charged with rape, while other two were charged with being accomplices to rape. The allegations span from 1994 to 2005.
6 ex-staffers accused of sex crimes against children at New Hampshire youth detention center Nelson Oliveira
Six former employees at a New Hampshire youth detention center have been charged with sexually abusing 11 children in a horrific ordeal that lasted about a decade, authorities said Wednesday.
The alleged crimes happened between 1994 and 2005 at the Sununu Youth Services Center, a state-run Manchester facility formerly known the Youth Development Center. The arrests come nearly two years after two of the suspects were charged with raping a teenage boy more than 80 times in the 1990s, an allegation that was later dropped in an effort to expand the investigation.
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