A staggering 168 new lawsuits have been filed that allege children staying at Crossroads Juvenile Center, Horizon Juvenile Center, Rikers Island and Spofford Juvenile Detention Center were assaulted...This raised the number of people who say they were systematically preyed upon while behind bars to 425 victims.
Today we are standing on the steps of City Hall with plaintiff-survivors of sexual abuse at juvenile detention centers to be heard, believed and most importantly to hold accountable institutions who let this egregious sexual abuse occur, Levy Konigsberg Partner Jerome Block said.
I was 16 years old when I was sent to Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx where I was abused by Natalie Medford. Those experiences marked me forever.
This should have never happened to me or to any child, regardless of the infraction that led them there.
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