A new report says a southeastern Pennsylvania county ran a juvenile detention center where troubled teens were beaten up by guards, sexually harassed, and locked in seclusion for long periods without a court order.
Delaware County's public defender, lawmakers and three whistleblowers who worked at the county's juvenile detention center painted a horrific scene of what they say has been happening for years in the Lima facility behind closed doors.
Still, the grand jury said the conduct they heard about at the facility could be criminal, and they "suspect that many more criminal acts may have occurred there at the hands of adults" who viewed the youths as "criminals or sex objects" rather than as troubled kids. Grand jurors said they heard accounts of staff punching, slapping, choking and threatening the teens, who had been sent to the facility to await the outcome of a criminal case.
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