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David Meehan’s lawyers rested their case Monday after calling their final witness in the lawsuit arguing the state is liable for the horrific sexual and physical abuse against him at the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC in Manchester.
State officials knew it had an abuse problem in its juvenile detention system in the early 1990s, before David Meehan says he was brutalized and raped for years by staff at the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC.
A medical expert called to testify for David Meehan in his trailblazing lawsuit against the state testified Thursday he will need life-long Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment costing up to $1.5 million.
In the more than 20 years since David Meehan was released from the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, he’s struggled with addiction, depression and severe anxiety while having trouble holding a job and forming healthy relationships.
David Meehan’s severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the worst cases Dr. Terry Allen Kupers ever encountered in his long career treating victims of child abuse, and it all stems from his years of being raped, beaten, and tortured by staff at the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC in Manchester.
David Meehan has already spent days on the witness stand delving into what happened to him at the Sununu Youth Services Center – also known as YDC – the brutal rapes, the months of isolation, and the crippling mental and physical toll he’s lived with since.
David Meehan bought a gun, clothing, and heroin in preparation to murder Jeff Buskey, the man Meehan says raped and brutalized him as a boy sentenced to the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC, in the 1990s.
Still haunted by the violent sexual abuse he suffered at the Sununu Youth Services Center, David Meehan had to stop his testimony Thursday when he became overcome by the guilt and shame he’s lived with every day since he was 15.
The man leading the fight to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for decades of horrific sexual and physical abuse and coverup, David Meehan began telling his story to jurors Wednesday, speaking haltingly and fighting through the emotional scars forced on him.