State Argues 200 Child Rapes at YDC Same as One Oil Spill

State Argues 200 Child Rapes at YDC Same as One Oil Spill

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org In an effort to avoid paying the $38 million awarded to David Meehan by a jury last year, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office argues that the 200 rapes Meehan suffered as a child, and the subsequent decades of coverup by state employees, is no different than one oil spill caused by negligence. Meehan is the first, and so far only Sununu Youth Services Center – then called YDC – sexual abuse victim to get a…