he state on Thursday rested its case against Stephen Murphy, a former Youth Development Center youth counselor charged with eight counts of raping a teen 27-28 years ago at the state’s juvenile detention center.
For the second time this year, Stephen Murphy is sitting in a courtroom being tried on allegations he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy 28 years ago at the Youth Development Center, the state’s juvenile detention center.
Hundreds of Manchester residents gathered on Thursday, October 16th for a public info session about the future of the Sununu Youth Services Center property colloquially known as the YDC. The room was already packed when I arrived well before the official start time. It was an impressive display of our community’s civic engagement.
Public comment during the Oct. 21 meeting was uncharacteristically brief, but two Ward 1 residents made their voices heard over the future of the former Sununu Youth Development Center property, urging city leaders to keep control of the site’s destiny and maintain their neighborhood’s quiet, residential character.
Some wanted the Sununu Youth Services Center (SYSC) property to remain as it is, others wanted it to feature starter and smaller homes for seniors, still others complained River Road couldn’t take any more traffic and others wanted to know how the state could sell the property, given covenants on it.