Byline: Pat Grossmith

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.