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The jury in Rockingham Superior Court is holding the state of New Hampshire to account for the rapes, beatings, and brutality suffered by David Meehan as a child, awarding him $38 million in damages which represents the largest amount awarded in a contested civil liability trial in state history.
May 3, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/05/03/jury-awards-38m-to-first-ydc-victim-largest-in-state-history/As a child in state custody, his attorney says David Meehan was raped at least 200 times. He suffered almost as many beatings, and was forced into hellish solitary confinement for at least 100 days.
May 2, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/05/02/jury-gets-ydc-abuse-case-as-both-sides-make-final-arguments/Daniel Meehan never saw any signs that his son, David Meehan, was being abused at home, nor did he ever know his child was getting raped and beaten by state employees.
April 30, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/30/meehans-father-testifies-in-ydc-case-he-never-saw-abuse/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.
April 26, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/26/testimony-state-knew-ydc-abuse-was-happening/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.
April 25, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/25/medical-expert-says-meehan-needs-1-5m-for-lifelong-ptsd-treatment/Virgil Bossom watched in horror as serious allegations of abuse against staff at the Sununu Youth Development Center was ignored, the alleged abusers assigned to investigate their own abuse, and the children who brought the complaints disciplined for speaking out.
April 15, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/15/testimony-ydc-leaders-turned-blind-eye-to-child-abuse/Karen LeMoine testified Wednesday she feared being raped or worse after she complained about the treatment of incarcerated children when she worked at the Youth Development Center in Manchester for two years until 1991.
April 10, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/10/former-ydc-worker-feared-beingraped-or-worse-for-complaining-about-kids-treatment/David Meehan’s lawyer told jurors how his already troubled life became part of an “inhuman atrocity” when sent at age 14 to the state’s youth detention center in Manchester where he was raped hundreds of times, beaten and locked in solitary confinement for months on end from 1995 to 1999.
April 10, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/10/ydc-victim-used-as-child-sex-slave-punching-bag-under-health-and-human-services-care-lawyer-tells-jurors/A three-year-old search warrant affidavit from the early days of the criminal investigation into the Sununu Youth Services Center, also known as YDC, abuse case is so secret that the judge overseeing the criminal cases has still not seen it.
March 18, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/03/18/judge-considers-releasing-ydc-abuse-affidavit-ag-wants-sealed/