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She described YDC as a violent, brutal and particularly cruel place for the young kids placed there. Guards taunted children on a daily basis, called them derogatory names and encouraged one boy to commit suicide.
The grand jury handed up 218 indictments for July.
Staff members at the Youth Development Center in the 1980s encouraged youths to sexually assault a co-worker who filed complaints with administrators about their abuse of children detained there, according to a lawsuit filed last Friday.
Judge Diane M. Nicolosi ordered him detained for 90 days, as allowed by law, giving the state the time to have him involuntarily committed to the New Hampshire State Hospital.
Police Chief Alan Aldenberg says the executive director of Queen City Pride owes him and the city’s police officers an apology for saying they caused the LGBTQ community “further harm” in how they handled an incident involving a “suspicious” white box truck the morning of last month’s Pride Festival.
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 Manchester protest was one of several organized around New Hampshire in response to Friday’s Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade.