Lawsuit against King County claims sexual abuse inside juvenile detention centers

Lawsuit against King County claims sexual abuse inside juvenile detention centers

Three dozen former juvenile inmates and detainees are suing King County over alleged sexual abuse spanning more than 40 years.

Dozens of former King County juvenile detainees sue over decades of sexual abuse

Dozens of former juvenile detainees are suing King County, alleging they were victims of decades-long systemic sexual abuse and institutional negligence while held in county detention facilities.

Lawsuit Alleges Decades of Sexual Abuse in King County Youth Detention

The matter is not closed for 36 former juvenile defendants who, in a lawsuit filed yesterday against King County, allege that the County failed to protect them from sexual abuses from the 1960’s through the 2000’s, at the hands of Little and 37 other authority figures. The 36 complainants are suing the County for negligence, claiming that their assaults were “an institutional failure caused by and maintained through King County’s willful disrega…