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Moon, Pinard, and Ricker all filed civil lawsuits against the state under Jane Doe pseudonyms, but have decided to drop their anonymity because of the man they say raped them.
The lawyer representing the first victim to be awarded $1.5 million for abuse suffered as a child incarcerated at the Youth Development Center filed a motion Wednesday to strike the lien his former lawyers filed against his maximum recovery arguing they did nothing to earn their fee.
As officials with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the New Hampshire State Police are being called to give depositions in the Sununu Youth Services Center abuse case, the judge assigned to the civil lawsuits is questioning the role of the state’s top law enforcement agency.
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., has settled the first claim under New Hampshire’s YDC Settlement Fund on behalf of a client who was sexually and physically assaulted at YDC in the 1970s, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
And while Attorney General John Formella and the victims’ attorneys agree that John Broderick was the best choice, the attorney representing most of the victims, David Vicinanzo, says the process as written will fail because it is deeply flawed.
The attorney representing 800 victims who were physically, sexually and emotionally abused as children incarcerated by the state says it’s time to reform confidentiality laws that keep the public from knowing what is happening at the Sununu Youth Services Center.
MANCHESTER – Less than a month after police were called to the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester for a report of a “riot,” police were called for more trouble three times so far Friday and today to the locked juvenile facility, although officials won’t say what happened.
The state does not want a former guard at the Sununu Youth Services Center, also called YDC in Manchester, being prosecuted for allegedly raping dozens of children to testify in the civil lawsuit representing victims, claiming he is too frail to talk.
However, the three Democrats on the 10-member committee voted to reject the revised plan saying the proposal is still difficult for victims to navigate, does not properly acknowledge the trauma the abuse inflicted, and will compensate most victims well below the statutory cap of $1.5 million.