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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/But with about a month to go before the trial starts, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman ruled Hoopes cannot represent the state while his partner, attorney Douglas Brooks is representing one of the YDC victims in a Massachusetts criminal case, a man referred to in court records as J.D.
March 5, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/03/05/judge-kicks-lawyer-off-states-ydc-defense-team/Lawyers for more than 1,000 Sununu Youth Services Center victims say the state is hiding evidence of its own corruption in a search warrant affidavit that’s been sealed for more than four years.
February 26, 2024 | https://indepthnh.org/2024/02/26/hidden-search-warrant-exposes-state-corruption-according-to-ydc-victims/