New Hampshire settles youth center abuse case for $10 million

In Manchester, an urgent call to address NH's rising youth homelessness: ‘See our faces.’

Annually, an estimated 15,000 people between 12 and 25 are homeless in New Hampshire.

YDC Survivor Settles Lawsuit for $10M

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org Michael Gilpatrick, one of the abuse survivors in the Sununu Youth Services Center, YDC scandal, agreed to a $10 million settlement with the state after he finally got an apology. “We are grateful for the heartfelt apology that we received from the Attorney General’s Office. We will continue to work with the criminal justice department through upcoming criminal trials to ensure the perpetrators are held accountabl…

CUSHMAN/BLASEK: HB 553 Would Turn Good Parents into Targets in NH

New Hampshire’s HB 553, up for a House vote this week, promises to protect children from abuse and neglect. Instead, it’s a poorly crafted amendment to the state’s child protection law that risks branding innocent parents as abusers. By expanding vague definitions and lowering the bar for intervention, it hands a broken family court and Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) dangerous new tools to upend families—all under the guise of …

New Hampshire AG agrees to settle YDC abuse case for $10 million

Michael Gilpatrick and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office agreed to settle out of court for $10 million and avoid a trial in Gilpatrick’s lawsuit alleging he was gang-raped at a Manchester Youth Development Center in 1998.

The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office decided in favor of a $10 million out-of-court settlement in the case of a man who claimed to have been gang-raped on a stairway in the state's juvenile detention facility in the 1990s.

$10 million settlement for man who was allegedly abused at New Hampshire YDC

A man who sued the state of New Hampshire after allegedly being abused at the former Youth Detention Center has settled his case for $10 million.