Byline: Pat Grossmith

The main facility in Manchester and its several adjunct facilities in Manchester and Concord over the years went by many names: the State Industrial School, the Adolescent Detention Center, the Youth Development Center, the Anna Philbrook Center, the Tobey School, the Sununu Youth Services Center, and the Youth Detention Services Unit.  The lawsuit refers to them all as “State Youth Facility (SYF).”

The Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District grand jury handed up 266 indictments this week.

Defendant Adam Montgomery, 32, did not appear Tuesday at a dispositional hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District where defense attorney Caroline I. Smith requested a severing of the cases involving his initial charges of second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and interference with custody.

A Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District grand jury returned the indictments on June 20, but they were not made public until Monday.

The attorneys representing hundreds of alleged victims of sexual and/or physical abuse by employees at the former Youth Development Center (YDC), the state-run juvenile detention center, are accusing the state of “setting a trap for financially insecure victims” in settling the cases.

A gay teen was sexually molested by both a male and female staffer at the Youth Development Center and, when he confided in the juvenile chaplain that he was gay, he was told he was going to hell, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

May 2022 grand jury indicments out of Hillsborough County Court North.

A city woman was indicted on 15 felony charges related to the physical abuse of her boyfriend’s three young children. 

A former juvenile parole officer at the state Division of Children, Youth and Families is to plead guilty in federal court to possessing images of child pornography and attempting to transfer pornographic material to a minor.

A love triangle could be at the heart of a shooting in March in which a 23-year-old man was shot four times at his home on Chestnut Street.

he case of a fired Manchester elementary school principal, accused of faking a burglary at her North End home in 2019, was settled earlier this year with her receiving a 30-day suspended sentence.