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New Hampshire Sex Abuse Case Against Youth Detention Center Mired in Controversy

New Hampshire Sex Abuse Case Against Youth Detention Center Mired in Controversy
David Meehan (L), who was awarded $38 million by a jury for the sexual abuse he experienced as a boy at a New Hampshire youth detention center, is surrounded by his lawyers at a hearing at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H., on June 24, 2024. Alice Giordano/The Epoch Times
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
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BRENTWOOD, N.H.—In an unusual case in New Hampshire, the state attorney general’s office is criminally prosecuting state workers accused of sexual abuse of minors detained at a state-run youth detention center while simultaneously defending the state against lawsuits filed by more than a thousand victims of the alleged abuse.

“I’ve never seen it happen before. I do believe it’s a conflict of interest,” Rus Rilee, an attorney for one of the victims, told The Epoch Times on June 24 following a hearing for a civil suit related to the youth center.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.