Read the story Failures to Act
An interactive that looks at the almost 1,300 people who say the state of New Hampshire failed to act to protect them from child abuse at youth facilities.
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New Hampshire has sent its most troubled kids to the same juvenile detention center for more than a century. The goal has been to shelter, educate, and nurture kids who commit crimes instead of sending them to adult jails and prisons.
But now, more than a thousand of those kids have come forward to say they were severely abused by adults in charge.
It’s become one of the biggest scandals of its kind in America – and people are still coming forward.
How did this happen – and how did it finally come to light?
Read the story Failures to Act
An interactive that looks at the almost 1,300 people who say the state of New Hampshire failed to act to protect them from child abuse at youth facilities.
Some of the audio contains explicit language.
For three decades, Andy Perkins didn’t talk about what happened to him at a place called YDC – the Youth Development Center. Then, he saw something on the news, and he realized he wasn’t the only person with a story about YDC. He gives us a rare glimpse into the black box of the juvenile justice system.
Karen Lemoine didn’t arrive at YDC looking to start trouble. But the red flags she saw were hard to ignore, especially when it came to one kid in particular. What trying to do the right thing cost both of them – and why, 30 years later, they’re speaking up again.
What do justice, accountability and healing mean in a scandal so large? In this episode, people struggle to find answers from the streets to the courts.