Ex-Youth Detention Center Counselor Faces Sex Assault Trial in New Hampshire
Buskey is charged with 21 counts tied to alleged abuse of boys at the state youth center, where more than 1,100 lawsuits have been filed.
- On Monday, former youth counselor Jeffrey Buskey faces trial for 21 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault involving David Meehan, whose 2019 allegations sparked an unprecedented criminal investigation in New Hampshire.
- Meehan filed the first of more than 1,100 lawsuits alleging abuse spanning six decades, triggering the arrest of Buskey and another former worker in 2019, leading to nine additional arrests and a settlement fund for victims.
- The Sununu Youth Services Center, which once housed upward of 100 children but now typically serves fewer than a dozen, remains central to the case. Buskey denied the allegations, claiming "I was always nice to the kid, I was always trying to help him."
- A jury awarded Meehan $38 million in May 2024, though that verdict remains in dispute as the state seeks to reduce the judgment to $475,000.
- Lawmakers have approved closing the facility and replacing it with a smaller building in a new location. In separate criminal proceedings, three men—Bradley Asbury, Stanley Watson, and James Woodlock—have been convicted.
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Ex-youth detention center counselor faces sex assault trial in New Hampshire - Boston News, Weather, Sports
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A sexual assault trial starts Monday for a New Hampshire man whose arrest more than seven years ago kicked off one of the biggest youth detention scandals in U.S. history. Former youth counselor Jeffrey Buskey, 60, of Litchfield, faces allegations involving four boys held at the Youth Development Center in Manchester in the late 1990s. In the first of his cases to go to trial, he is charged with 21 counts of aggravated fe…
Ex-youth detention center counselor faces sex assault trial in New Ham
FILE - Youth Development Center. plaintiff David Meehan testifies as his intake photo, when he was 14 is displayed during his civil trial at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H. on April 17, 2024. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool, file)
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